It is not the man who has too little that is poor, but the one who hankers after more.
—Seneca
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
—Seneca
Gold tests with fire, woman with gold, man with woman.
—Seneca
Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.
—Seneca
No man is crushed by misfortune unless he has first been deceived by prosperity
—Seneca
Our Lord has died for us, and surely we must not deny Him for favor of men.
—J. Gresham Machen
The “sociable” man, always outside himself, is capable of living only in the opinions of others and, so to speak, derives the sentiment of his own existence solely from their judgment.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
—Nikolai Gogol
Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.
—Julius Caesar
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
—Henry David Thoreau
“Here is the history of the grass:
1. Sown
2. Grown
3. Blown
4. Mown
5. Gone;
and the history of man is not much more.”
— Charles Spurgeon
Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.
—Heraclitus
Man should not consider his material possessions as his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.
—Thomas Aquinas
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
—Ernest Hemingway
I love mankind, but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
As a rule, men worry more about what they can’t see than about what they can.
—Julius Caesar
A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.
—Charles Darwin
No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.
—Socrates
Oh, to what lengths can desperation drive a man!
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Faith will set you up above the fear of man, and enable you to rejoice in being accounted a fool for CHRIST’s sake.
—George Whitefield
MAN is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
—Charles Darwin
A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.
—Isaac Newton
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
—Mark Twain
“Bold-hearted men are always called mean-spirited by cowards.”
— Charles Spurgeon
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
—Seneca
The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
—Nikolai Gogol
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.
—Leonardo Da Vinci