Body Quote by Alexander Pope

Men ought to be most annoyed by the sufferings which come from their own faults.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Every man is of importance to himself, and, therefore, in his own opinion, to others; and, supposing the world already acquainted with his pleasures…

— Samuel Johnson

“Men are either to be kindly treated, or utterly crushed, since they can revenge lighter injuries, but not graver. Wherefore the injury we do…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“The whole attitude of 'man against the world', of man as a 'world-negating' principle, of a man as the measure of the value of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There's no greater tragedy than an equal intensity, in the same soul or the same man, of the intellectual sentiment and the moral sentiment.…

— Fernando Pessoa

“Nothing that we despise in other men is inherently absent from ourselves. We must learn to regard people less in the light of what…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot; therefore…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not…

— Blaise Pascal

It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down... Why do we laugh? Because it is…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“The thinking man must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a…

— Anonymous

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.

— Thomas Carlyle