Art Quote by Niccolo Machiavelli

The more the specific feelings of being under obligation range themselves under a supreme principle of human dependence the clearer and more fertile will…

— Johan Huizinga

The demands that a great man makes are on himself; those of a petty man are upon others.

— Confucius

What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing-to live in accord with his own nature.

— Seneca the Younger

A man is not much if he can't depend on himself, and nothing if others can't depend on him.

— John Banville

No man is obliged to do as much as he can do. A man is to have part of his life to himself.

— Samuel Johnson

“An act of generosity rarely ends a man's responsibilities toward another; it tends instead to begin them.”

— Amor Towles

“A man is born into certain relationships and as a result has certain duties. For instance, he has a duty of loyalty to his…

— Lao Tzu

To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.

— Jimmy Carter

The value of a man is in his intrinsic qualities: in that of which power cannot strip him and which adverse fortune cannot take…

— William Godwin

Man is unique in that he has plans, purpose and goals which require the need for criteria of choice. The need for ethical value…

— George Bernard Shaw

By nature, man is lazy, working only under compulsion; and when he is strong we will always live, as far as he can, upon…

— Henry Adams

All the shrewdness of 'man' seeks one thing: to be able to live without responsibility.

— Soren Kierkegaard