Accustomed Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in luxury, and…

— Giambattista Vico

“One loses nobility when he does something and then says, ‘I did that.’ A noble man will incur loss from both sides; in giving…

— Dada Bhagwan

Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism.

— Anonymous

It is of the nobility of man's soul that he is insatiable: for he hath a benefactor so prone to give, that he delighteth…

— Thomas Traherne

Wealth and rank are what men desire, but unless they be obtained in the right way they may not be possessed. Poverty and obscurity…

— Confucius

The reason is that nature has so created men that they are able to desire everything but are not able to attain everything: so…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Men of noble birth are noted to be envious towards new men when they rise. For the distance is altered, and it is like…

— Francis Bacon

It is perhaps common in the world for individuals and nations to suffer for their noble qualities more than for their ignoble ones. For…

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Men become utilitarian out of fear of the alternative the chaos of tangled or tepid desires, of rootlessness and boredom.

— John Carroll

Some men are heroes by nature in that they will give all that is in them without regard to the effort or to the…

— Carson McCullers

As a man falls out of favour and his wealth declines, we discover for the first time the ridiculous aspects of his character, which…

— Jean de la Bruyere

“Even in adversity, nobility shines through, when a man endures repeated and severe misfortune with patience, not owing to insensibility but from generosity and…

— Aristotle