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The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on men

Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on men

In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on men

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
Aristotle on men

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.
Aristotle on men

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.
Aristotle on men

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.
Quintus Ennius on men

Bachelors know more about women than married men if they didn't they'd be married too.
H. L. Mencken on men

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.
Plato on men

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.
Aristotle on men

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.
Aristotle on men

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.
Red Skelton on men

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.
Aristotle on men

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.
George Bernard Shaw on men

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.
Henry David Thoreau on men

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.
Aristotle on men

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.
James Madison on men

Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.
Voltaire on men

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

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.
Friedrich Nietzsche on men