Quote by Confucius

A man who knows how to mix pleasures with business is never entirely possessed by them; he either quits or resumes them at his…

— Charles de Saint-Evremond

Ashamed of the many frailties they feel within, all men endeavor to hide themselves, their ugly nakedness, from each other, and wrapping up the…

— Bernard de Mandeville

A man who love only himself and his pleasures is vain, presumptuous, and wicked even from principle.

— Luc de Clapiers

Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into…

— Jean Cocteau

Men best show their character in trifles, where they are not on their guard. It is in the simplest habits, that we often see…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Sometimes a man imagines that he will lose himself if he gives himself, and keep himself if he hides himself. But the contrary takes…

— Ernest Hello

“Men often, in endeavoring to gratify their own passions, seek what is injurious to them, reject what would be truly advantageous, and are deluded…

— Sozomen

There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten up by vice that…

— William Booth

“A man’s work reveals him. In social intercourse he gives you the surface that he wishes the world to accept, and you can only…

— W. Somerset Maugham

A man can't do what he likes with his coverts.

— Anthony Trollope

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

— John Locke

“Be careful in dealing with a man who cares nothing for sensual pleasures, nothing for comfort or praise or promotion, but is simply determined…

— Gilbert Murray