“We must put away all notion of self-importance.
God will not bless the man who thinks himself great.”
— Charles Spurgeon
To make peace either in oneself or among others, shows a man to be a follower of God.
—Thomas Aquinas
It’s amazing what one ray of the sun can do with the soul of a man!
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
The world owes nothing to any man, but every man owes something to the world.
—Thomas Edison
Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.
—Blaise Pascal
In any case, frequent punishments are a sign of weakness or slackness in the government. There is no man so bad that he cannot be made good for something. No man should be put to death, even as an example, if he can be left to live without danger to society.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“When a man consciously realizes the love of God in his soul, he cannot want more than that.”
– Charles Spurgeon
As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State “What does it matter to me?” the State may be given up for lost.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“When a man is forgiven by God, and knows that he is saved, the joy of the Lord enters his soul, and he says, You may take all other joys, and do what you like with them. I have my God, my Saviour, and I want no more.”
– Charles Spurgeon
There is a God-shaped vacuum in the heart of each man which cannot be satisfied by any created thing but only by God the Creator, made know through Jesus Christ.
—Blaise Pascal
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
—Mark Twain
The truth brings no man a fortune.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Man has free choice, or otherwise counsels, exhortations, commands, prohibitions, rewards and punishments would be in vain.
—Thomas Aquinas
Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
—Blaise Pascal
Fools call wise men fools. A wise man never calls any man a fool.
—Thomas Edison
There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the real labor of thinking.
—Thomas Edison
Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.
—Thomas Aquinas
I’ve been a fortunate man in life, nothing has come easily.
—Sigmund Freud
To live is not to breathe but to act. It is to make use of our organs, our senses, our faculties, of all the parts of ourselves which give us the sentiment of our existence. The man who has lived the most is not he who has counted the most years but he who has most felt life.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
War is father of all, and king of all. He renders some gods, others men; he makes some slaves, others free.
—Heraclitus
There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.
—Blaise Pascal
In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; from which it follows that the social state is advantageous to men only when all possess something and none has too much.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
—Henry David Thoreau
Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.
—Blaise Pascal
He who has talent in him must be purer in soul than anyone else. Another will be forgiven much, but to him it will not be forgiven. A man who leaves the house in bright, festive clothes needs only one drop of mud splashed from under a wheel, and people all surround him, point their fingers at him, and talk about his slovenliness, while the same people ignore many spots on other passers-by who are wearing everyday clothes. For on everyday clothes the spots do not show.
—Nikolai Gogol
Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.
—Sigmund Freud
The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.
—Blaise Pascal
Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
—Blaise Pascal
Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Man is such a wondrous being that it is never possible to count up all his merits at once. The more you study him, the more new particulars appear, and their description would be endless.
—Nikolai Gogol