The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.
—John Milton
At the end of the table, the secretary was reading the decision in some case, but in such a mournful and monotonous voice, that the condemned man himself would have fallen asleep while listening to it. The judge, no doubt, would have been the first of all to do so, had he not entered into an engrossing conversation while it was going on.
—Nikolai Gogol
Every man having been born free and master of himself, no one else may under any pretext whatever subject him without his consent. To assert that the son of a slave is born a slave is to assert that he is not born a man.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Man disobeying, Disloyal breaks his fealty, and sins Against the high supremacy of heaven, Affecting Godhead, and so losing all.
—John Milton
One of the most difficult tasks men can perform, however much others may despise it, is the invention of good games and it cannot be done by men out of touch with their instinctive selves.
—Carl Jung
Most men are not wicked.. They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
—Franz Kafka
Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
Education is the art of making man ethical
—Georg Hegel
“Grace makes no man proud.”
— Charles Spurgeon
“The ills of life are turned into blessings when once a man believes in Jesus, and fully trusts in him.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“Holy men would prefer life-long sickness to willful sin.”
— Charles Spurgeon
Today is victory over yourself of yesterday; tomorrow is your victory over lesser men.
—Miyamoto Musashi
Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
—Voltaire
Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.
—Heraclitus
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
—Oscar Wilde
A low view of law brings legalism into religion; a high view of law makes man a seeker after grace. Pray that the high view may prevail.
—J. Gresham Machen
No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is not a hero, but because the valet is a valet.
—Georg Hegel
I need solitude for my writing; not ‘like a hermit’ – that wouldn’t be enough – but like a dead man.
—Franz Kafka
“[…] I must mention one other thing that I know; it is that faith in Christ can save a man from every sort of fear in life and in death.”
– Charles Spurgeon
Better a man to be sure of his salvation than to have the wealth of the world rolled to his feet.
—D. L. Moody
“Oh! if there be a harlot here, or a man who has fallen into all sorts of gross sin, Christ can and will deliver you if you will only come and repose your heart’s trust in him.”
– Charles Spurgeon
Above all, don’t lie to yourself.
The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others.
And having no respect he ceases to love.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
—Aldous Huxley
Above all, don’t lie to yourself.
The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others.
And having no respect he ceases to love.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.
The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.
—Albert Einstein
There are very few who can think, but every man wants to have an opinion; and what remains but to take it ready-made from others, instead of forming opinions for himself?
—Arthur Schopenhauer
Wise men don’t need to prove their point; men who need to prove their point aren’t wise.
—Laozi
Neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible except to God alone.
—John Milton
The worst type of man behaves as badly in his waking life as some men do in their dreams.
—Plato