Dull Quote by Jean de la Bruyere

There is no folly of which a man who is not a fool cannot get rid except vanity; of this nothing cures a man…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Any fool can be fussy and rid himself of energy all over the place, but a man has to have something in him before…

— J. B. Priestley

A man who raises himself by degrees to wealth and power, contracts, in the course of this protracted labor, habits of prudence and restraint…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

To comprehend a man's life, it is necessary to know not merely what he does but also what he purposely leaves undone. There is…

— John Hall Gladstone

If a man devotes himself to the instructions of his own unconscious, it can bestow this gift [of renewal], so that suddenly life, which…

— Marie-Louise von Franz

When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to [profess] things he does not believe, he has…

— Thomas Paine

A long-established occupation may form the very foundations of the moral life, that the art with which a man has solaced his toil may…

— Jane Addams

Laziness begat wearisomeness, and this put men in quest of diversions, play and company, on which however it is a constant attendant; he who…

— Jean de la Bruyere

A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.

— Anonymous

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favor cannot satisfy him

— Samuel Johnson

There was one field in which man was unsurpassed; he showed unlimited ingenuity in devising bigger and more efficient ways to kill off, enslave,…

— Robert A. Heinlein

Once man has lost the fundamental orientation which unifies his existence, he breaks down into the multiplicity of his desires; in refusing to await…

— Pope Francis