Men and women Quote by French Proverb

The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pygmy in its proportions when it follows

— Charles M De Talleyrand

“There are episodes in most men's lives in which their highest qualities can only cast a deterring shadow over the objects that fill their…

— George Eliot

The measure of a man is not necessarily his title or his position, but rather how he treats others...

— Victor L. Brown

I think no virtue goes with size;The reason of all cowardiceIs, that men are overgrown,And, to be valiant, must come downTo the titmouse dimension.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man really determines himself by what he does.

— Vin Scully

A man always assumes that others are as virtuous as himself

— Orson Scott Card

The generality of men have, like plants, latent properties, which chance brings to light.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the…

— Leo Tolstoy

He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.

— Mencius

Man believes himself always greater than he is, and is esteemed less than he is worth.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson