Cutting Quote by Voltaire

Men are subject to powerful passions and appetites, and, if unrestrained, are capable of ruthlessly riding roughshod over their neighbors and the community at…

— William Barr

Domestic happiness is the end of almost all our pursuits, and the common reward of all our pains. When men find themselves forever barred…

— Henry Fielding

Vigorous societies harbor a certain extravagance of objectives, so that men wander beyond the safe provision of personal gratifications.

— Alfred North Whitehead

The happiness and unhappiness of men depends as much on their ethics as on fortune.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Prosperity inebriates men, so that they take delights in their own merits.

— John Calvin

The happiness or unhappiness of men depends no less on their dispositions than on their fortunes

— Francois La Rochefoucauld

The marketplace obliges men, whether they will or not, in pursuing their own selfish interests, to connect the general good with their own individual…

— Edmund Burke

Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a mixture of…

— Baron de Montesquieu

Men seek to be great; they would have offices, wealth, power, and fame. They think that to be great is to possess one side…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is a true observation of ancient writers, that as men are apt to be cast down by adversity, so they, are easily satiated…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

We seek our happiness outside ourselves, and in the opinion of men we know to be flatterers, insincere, unjust, full of envy, caprice and…

— Jean de la Bruyere

There is so much of good in human nature that men grow to like each other upon better acquaintance, and this points to another…

— Elihu Root