Enough Quote by James Payn

It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“The fact is that everyone is much too busily preoccupied with himself to be able to form a serious opinion about another person. The…

— Thomas Mann

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Creatures naturally hate their fellow-creatures, and whenever their own interest requires it, harm them. We cannot therefore avoid hatred and injuries from men, while…

— Giacomo Leopardi

Only those young people can be accepted as healthy who refuse to be reconciled with the old order and foolishly or wisely struggle against…

— Anton Chekhov

In proportion as a man is selfish, so far has he receded from the motive which constitutes virtue.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Man is endowed by nature with organic relations to his fellow men; and natural impulse prompts him to consider the needs of others even…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

“[A man] finds in himself a talent which with the help of some culture might make him a useful man in many respects. But…

— Immanuel Kant

What virtue is there in a man who demonstrates goodness because he has been bred to it? It is his habit from youth. But…

— Deanna Raybourn

What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing-to live in accord with his own nature.

— Seneca the Younger

Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure…

— Jane Austen

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