Flesh Quote by Georg C. Lichtenberg

“A man is never made for vanquish. A man can be ruined but never conquered.”

— Aesha K Shah

The poor man is ruined as soon as he begins to ape the rich.

— Publilius Syrus

Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once in a minute something generous dies for…

— John Masefield

The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a "ruined man" is itself a vocation.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

To consider oneself different from ordinary men is wrong, but it is right to hope that one will not remain like ordinary men.

— Yoshida Shoin

The taste for glory can make ordinary men behave in extraordinary ways.

— Tahir Shah

the ordinary man's experience is chaotic, irregular, fragmentary. [He] falls in love or reads Spinoza, and these two experiences have nothing to do with…

— T. S. Eliot

That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in. and the best of me is diligence.

— William Shakespeare

For the ordinary man, whose mind is a checkerboard of crisscrossing reflections, opinions, and prejudices, bare attention is virtually impossible; his life is thus…

— Philip Kapleau

I'm just an ordinary man. I get tired.

— Rakii Retondo

Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.

— Anonymous

He was the most ordinary man in all the world, and yet in her memory he'd become luminous, like the prince in a fairy…

— Cheryl Strayed

Brian and I have ups and downs like every marriage does. Although he's a legend, he's still, inside, an ordinary man, and I have…

— Anita Dobson

One machine can do the work of hundred ordinary men but no machine can do the work of one extra ordinary man.

— SmartMuslimAnas

A warrior, or any man for that matter, cannot possibly wish he were somewhere else; a warrior because he lives by challenge, an ordinary…

— Carlos Castaneda