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Quotes About Men

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
By all means. Swords have ever been the best servants of crazy men.
~ Piers Anthony
Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to acknowledgment of a divine power.....
~ Plato
Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to the acknowledgement of a divine power.
~ Plato
Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.
~ Plato
States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.
~ Plato
The greatest penalty of evildoing - namely, to grow into the likeness of bad men.
~ Plato
The price good men pay for indifference to public attairs is to be ruled by evil men.
~ Plato
The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
~ Plato
Creo que las mujeres sostienen al mundo en vilo, para que no se desbarajuste mientras los hombres tratan de empujar la historia. Al final uno se pregunta cuál de las dos cosas será la menos sensata
~ Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza
that those supports may be shaken, and collapse, for the popularity of evil men is as fickle as the men themselves.
~ Pliny the Younger
When asked by a woman from Attica:'Why are you Spartan women the only ones who can rule men?', she said: 'Because we are the only ones who give birth to men.
~ Plutarch
It was natural for [Spartan women] to think and speak as Gorgo, the wife of Leonidas, is said to have done, when some foreign lady, as it would seem, told her that the women of Lacedaemon were the only women of the world who could rule men; 'With good reason,' she said, 'for we are the only women who bring forth men'.
~ Plutarch
The malicious humor of men, though perverse and refractory, is not so savage and invincible but it may be wrought upon by kindness, and altered by repeated obligations.
~ Plutarch
Oh, a mermaid's comb. Heavy stuff, but safe enough as long as you don't use it around water. Or a busy highway. You're not planning to lure any young men to their doom, are you?" How embarrassing! I shook my head, blushing.
~ Polly Shulman
The increase of scientific knowledge lies not only in the occasional milestones of science, but in the efforts of the very large body of men who with love and devotion observe and study nature.
~ Polykarp Kusch
The new pope knows that his task is to make the light of Christ shine before men and women of world - not his own light, but that of Christ.
~ Pope Benedict (XVI)
...Men and women were created to be jointly the guarantee of the future of the humanity not only a physical guarantee, but also a moral one.
~ Pope Benedict XVI
As he grew up, he had much attention from the supernally lovely elf women. Without gods, and with few children, the elves know not marriage, but their nature was such that their women had more wish of love and their men less than among humans. Thus Skafloc found himself in great favor, and many a good time did he have in the light nights of summer.
~ Poul Anderson
Semua lelaki memang kucing berlagak kelinci. Sebagai kelinci dimakannya semua daun, sebagai kucing dimakannya semua daging.
~ Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.
~ Primo Levi
Surely, the gods' judgment is certain. But as for us, we must be satisfied to 'come close' to those things, for we are men, who speak according to what is likely, and whose lectures resemble fables.
~ Proclus
Great men in judicial places will never want authority.
~ Proverb
Fools and obstinate men make rich lawyers.
~ Proverb