Accounts Quote by Michel de Montaigne

Not because Socrates said so,... I look upon all men as my compatriots.

— Michel de Montaigne

“If men were equal in America, all these former Poles and English and Czechs and blacks, then they were equal everywhere, and there was…

— Michael Shaara

“Thus men, according to Bossuet, derive nothing from themselves; patriotism, wealth, inventions, husbandry, science—all come to them by the operation of the laws, or…

— Frédéric Bastiat

“I am not like other men, and the ordinary laws of morality and rules of propriety do not apply to me,” Napoleon vaunted.”

— Kate Williams

“No man will ever be whole and dignified and free except in the knowledge that the men around him are whole and dignified and…

— Wendell Berry

“A man is not defined by one allegiance alone... If he were, then reason would have no value, nor would loyalty have meaning.”

— Krishna Udayasankar

“Men hear gladly of the power of blood or race. Everybody likes to know that his advantages cannot be attributed to air, soil, sea,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Man's greatest privilege is the discussion of virtue" Socrates in The Apology.”

— Socrates

“I am sensible that to own an inclination for a man is to put one's self wholly in his power; but sure you have…

— Pierrepont Mary

Men are very apt to run into extremes, hatred to England may carry come into an excess of Confidence in France... I am heartily…

— George Washington

“There is no room for pride in any man. There is no room for unkindness. There is not room for wit at the expense…

— Richard Llewellyn

“Not to value and employ men of superior ability is the way to keep the people from rivalry among themselves;”

— Lao Tzu