Constant Quote by Luc de Clapiers

Men always try to make virtues of their weaknesses. Fear of death and fear of life both become piety.

— Anonymous

Fear... the right and necessary counterweights to that courage which urges men skyward, and protects them from self-destruction

— Heinrich Harrer

If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result…

— Albert Einstein

Men who do not contend in earnest can have little warmth and fervor in what they undertake, and are more than half prepared to…

— William Godwin

Stripped of all their masquerades, the fears of men are quite identical: the fear of loneliness, rejection, inferiority, unmanageable anger, illness and death.

— Joshua L. Liebman

Men who are sincere in defending their freedom, will always feel concern at every circumstance which seems to make against them; it is the…

— Thomas Paine

Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies' resources, and minimized their…

— Livy

Such is man's nature, that he is very inactive and lazy unless he is influenced by some affection, either love or hatred, desire, hope,…

— Jonathan Edwards

“It was the verdict of ancient writers that men afflict themselves in evil and weary themselves in the good, and that the same effects…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“The great majority of men and women, in ordinary times, pass through life without ever contemplating or criticising, as a whole, either their own…

— Bertrand Russell

“It happens very often that those whom men esteem highly are more seriously endangered by their own excessive confidence. Hence, for many it is…

— Thomas à Kempis

Men have gained control over the forces of nature to such an extent that with their help they would have no difficulty exterminating one…

— Sigmund Freud