All things Quote by Michel de Montaigne

“The most calamitous and fragile of all creatures is man, and yet the most arrogant....Is it possible to imagine anything so ridiculous as that…

— Michel de Montaigne

He that is master of himself will soon be master of others.

— Henry George Bohn

Any man who criticizes my suicide and passes judgment on me with an expression of superiority, declaring (without offering the least help) that I…

— Osamu Dazai

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature.

— Henry Miller

The man who masters himself is delivered from the force that binds all creatures.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He who would govern others, first should be master of himself.

— Philip Massinger

Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

But if one wishes to be absolute master of all, to obtain the entire inheritance, and to exclude his brothers from even a third…

— Gregory of Nyssa

He who achieves power by violence does not truly become lord or master.

— Thomas Aquinas

Every one is more or less master of his own fate.

— Aesop

The worst ruler is one who cannot rule himself.

— Cato the Elder

In order to become the master, a ruler must profess to be a servant of the people.

— Ashwin Sanghi