Famous Quotes About men

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

The evil that men do lives after them the good is oft interred with their bones.

The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

Good men must not obey the laws too well.