Another man Quote by John Locke

The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others…

— Anonymous

Man must have some recognized stake in society and affairs to knit him lovingly to his kind, or he is wont to revenge himself…

— Amos Bronson Alcott

He that sells upon trust, loses many friends, and always wants money.

— Benjamin Franklin

He that calls a man ungrateful sums up all the veil that a man can be guilty of.

— Jonathan Swift

He who indulges his sense in any excesses renders himself obnoxious to his own reason; and, to gratify the brute in him, displeases the…

— Walter Scott

He who gives himself to a lover because he is a good man, and in the hope that he will be improved by his…

— Plato

“Men may seem detestable as joint stock-companies and nations; knaves, fools, and murderers there may be; men may have mean and meagre faces; but…

— Herman Melville

Modesty and diffidence make a man unfit for public affairs; they also make him unfit for brothels.

— Walter Savage Landor

A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of…

— Stendhal

He is very fond of making things which he does not want, and then giving them to people who have no use for them.

— Anthony Hope

“Nor when love is of this disinterested sort is there any disgrace in being deceived, but in every other case there is equal disgrace…

— Plato

A gentleman is one who is too brave to lie, too generous to cheat, and who takes his share othe world and lets other…

— Paul G. Hoffman