Men proverbs

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◆ Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

- Confucius99

◆ Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.

- Niccolo Machiavelli99

◆ If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.

- Francis of Assisi99

◆ I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.

- Mahatma Gandhi99

◆ Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld99

◆ Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.

- Charlie Chaplin99

◆ Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.

- Mahatma Gandhi99

◆ Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

- Henry David Thoreau99

◆ The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

- Henry David Thoreau99

◆ A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once.

- Phyllis Diller99

◆ Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.

- Dante Alighieri99

◆ Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

- E. B. White99

◆ I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

- John Locke99

◆ Treat all men alike. Give them the same law. Give them an even chance to live and grow.

- Chief Joseph99

◆ We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

- Charles de Montesquieu99