Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: men

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.

The less men think, the more they talk.

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play.

People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.

Death can never kill an idea. Ideas are more powerful than death. Ideas outlive men and can never be destroyed.

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.

All religions have been made by men.

Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

Passion is what gets you through the hardest times that might otherwise make strong men weak, or make you give up.

Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.

The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.

A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.

Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.

Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot.

It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.

There is no justice among men.

I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.

Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman.

Beware of men who cry. It's true that men who cry are sensitive to and in touch with feelings, but the only feelings they tend to be sensitive to and in touch with are their own.

The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you.

It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.

Where wealth accumulates, men decay.

Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.

Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.

The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes - or it prospers; and anon, Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face, Lighting a little hour or two - is gone.

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.

A nation is a totality of men united through community of fate into a community of character.

The man who can put himself in the place of other men, who can understand the workings of their minds, need never worry about what the future has in store for him.

Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.

The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their clay but abides everywhere without visible symbol woven into the stuff of other mens lives.

A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once.

Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want to get something out of them, otherwise you'll come home to me with a full belly and an empty purse.

Men are the dreams of a shadow.

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.