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Man Quotes by Ovid
- Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.
- Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts. Finley Peter Dunne There is…
- A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.
- Happy the man who can count his sufferings.
- Thy destiny is only that of man, but thy aspirations may be those of a god.
- Envy feeds on the living, after death it rests, then the honor of a man protects him.
- When all the other animals, downcast looked upon the earth, he [Prometheus] gave a face raised on high to man, and commanded him to see…
- It is the mind that makes the man, and our vigour is in our immortal soul.
- How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.
- Man looks aloft, and with erected eyes Beholds his hereditary skies.
- The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.
- Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.
- All other creatures look down toward the earth, but man was given a face so that might turn his eyes toward the stars and his…
- God gave man an upright countenance to survey the heavens, and to look upward to the stars.
- It is the poor man who'll ever count his flock.
- According to the state of a man's conscience, so do hope and fear on account of his deeds arise in his mind.
- It is a pleasure appropriate to man, for him to save a fellow-man, and gratitude is acquired in no better way.
- Let the poor man mind his tongue
- Bring a lawsuit against a man who can pay; the poor man's acts are not worth the expense
- Nothing is more useful to man that those arts which have no utility.
- Let the man who does not wish to be idle, fall in love.
- Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
- The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.
- A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and…
More Man Quotes
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle
- Hope is the dream of a waking man. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle