Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: men

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

Persuasion is achieved by the speaker's personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We believe good men more fully and more readily than others: this is true generally whatever the question is, and absolutely true where exact certainty is impossible and opinions are divided.

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.

If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.

To discover the true principles of Morality, men have no need of theology, of revelation, or of gods: They have need only of common sense.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.

Observe all men, thyself most.

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.

Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.

The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.

Men are only as loyal as their options.

If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.

We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.

Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and at last some crisis shows what we have become.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.

A woman simply is, but a man must become.

Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.

If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.

You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings.

To be a man is to suffer for others. God help us to be men!

We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.

The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.

I don't like the clean-shaven boy with the necktie and the good job. I like desperate men, men with broken teeth and broken minds and broken ways. They interest me. They are full of surprises and explosions.

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.

An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

A good boss makes his men realize they have more ability than they think they have so that they consistently do better work than they thought they could.

He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.