Born Quote by Thomas Paine

Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are…

— Thomas Paine

Those who profess contempt for men, and put them on a level with beasts, yet wish to be admired and believed by men, and…

— Blaise Pascal

Great men cultivate love and only little men cherish a spirit of hatred; assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it…

— Booker T. Washington

Those who are successfully to lead their fellow-men, should have once possessed the nobler feelings. We have all known individuals whose magnanimity was not…

— Arthur Helps

Men, not children or servants, tempered and taught to the end; Cleansed of servile panic, slow to dread or despise, Humble because of knowledge,…

— Rudyard Kipling

Man's desire for the approval of his fellows is so strong, his dread of their censure so violent, that he himself has brought his…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Thus men of more enlighten'd genius and more intrepid spirit must compose themselves to the risque of public censure, and the contempt of their…

— Jon Jones

Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.

— Baruch Spinoza

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

— Aristotle

Men are most powerfully affected by those evils which themselves feel, or which appear before their own eyes.

— Samuel Johnson

A man that hath no virtue in himself, ever envieth virtue in others. For men's minds, will either feed upon their own good, or…

— Francis Bacon

“It would be easy, however, to exaggerate the havoc wrought by such artificial conditions. The monotony we observe in mankind must not be charged…

— George Santayana