Able Quote by Philemon

One man isn't any better than another, not because they are equal, but because they are intrinsically other, that there is no termof comparison.

— D. H. Lawrence

No matter how good or great a man may be, there is yet a better and a greater man within him.

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

Why is one man richer than another? Because he is more industrious, more persevering and more sagacious.

— John Ruskin

Without that innate sense of human worth, a man cannot long endure adversity, nor can he long enjoy prosperity.

— Confucius

A man who wishes to better himself is opposite a man who is better.

— Anonymous

Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived…

— Samuel Butler

While under precapitalistic conditions superior men were the masters on whom the masses of the inferior had to attend, under capitalism the more gifted…

— Ludwig von Mises

The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is…

— Publilius Syrus

“Superior men have a propensity for spending their time contemplating the meaning of life. They are in a perpetual quest for truth and understanding…

— VD

To be prosperous is not to be superior, and should form no barrier between men. Wealth out not to secure the prosperous the slightest…

— Anonymous

Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities, superior, either in kind or degree, to those…

— Samuel Johnson

The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero