The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
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.
He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.
The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.
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.
It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.
Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.
Bachelors know more about women than married men if they didn't they'd be married too.
The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.
Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.
Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.
The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.
Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.
All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.
It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.
The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.
Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.
A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.
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.
Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?;Friedrich Nietzsche;men 45448;I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.;Henry David Thoreau;men 45449;Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.;Johann Wolfgang von Goethe;men 45450;The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves.;Marilyn Monroe;men 45451;The fact is that I find more most men are more open, more generous, and much more stimulating than the majority of females I know.;Marilyn Monroe;men 45452;Men who think that a woman's past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.;Marilyn Monroe;men 45453;If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!;Marilyn Monroe;men 45454;When it comes to gossip, I have to readily admit men are as guilty as women.;Marilyn Monroe;men 45455;I have noticed... that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women.;Marilyn Monroe;men 45456;Girls shouldn't worry about being the equal of men in the business world.;Marilyn Monroe;men 45457;Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.;Marilyn Monroe;men 45458;I've found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.;Marilyn Monroe;men 45459;I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.;Marilyn Monroe;men 45460;Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.
Sometimes I've been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.
The working men, I'll go by and they'll whistle. At first they whistle because they think, 'Oh, it's a girl. She's got blond hair and she's not out of shape,' and then they say, 'Gosh, it's Marilyn Monroe!'
There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life their Christianity, for instance.
If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.
Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.
All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.
The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin.
Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.
Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.
Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.
Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.
Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.