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Quotes About Man

Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.
~ Pliny (the Elder)
It is far from easy to determine whether she [Nature] has proved to man a kind parent or a merciless stepmother.
~ Pliny (the Elder)
This only is certain, that there is nothing certain; and nothing more miserable and yet more arrogant than man.
~ Pliny the Elder
no beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
~ Plutarch
Thus they let their anger and fury take from them the sense of humanity, and demonstrated that no beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
~ Plutarch
But a man cannot by writing a bill of divorce to his vice get rid of all trouble at once, and enjoy tranquillity by living apart.
~ Plutarch
Or is it that of all numbers nine is the first square from the odd and perfect triad, while eight is the first cube from the even dyad? Now a man should be four-square, eminent, and perfect; but a woman, like a cube, should be stable, domestic, and difficult to remove from her place. And
~ Plutarch
There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible as the conscience that dwells in the heart of every man.
~ Polybius
I too hope in this short reign to be a man of peace.
~ Pope Benedict (XVI)
A peaceful man does more good than a learned one.
~ Pope John (XXIII)
The greatness of work is inside man.
~ Pope John Paul (II)
Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery.
~ Pope John Paul (II)
Work bears a particular mark of man and of humanity, the mark of a person operating within a community of persons.
~ Pope John Paul II
Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.
~ Pope Paul VI
The same fight was being waged, here the Nazis and there the Middle World; but in both places, Chaos against Law, something old and wild and blind at war with man and the works of man.
~ Poul Anderson
No!" Ellen almost screamed. Chung sagged in his chair. "We're very neatly trapped," he said like an old man. "I don't see any way out. Think you can get to
~ Poul Anderson
The man in my hospital room that day was the man I loved, and will always love. He didn't have to try to be strong and decisive or sexy, he wasn't afraid to show his warmth or vulnerability. He didn't have to act the part of Elvis Presley, superstar. He was just a man, my husband.
~ Priscilla Presley
A bad man's gift is like his master.
~ Proverb
An undecided man is the worst disaster of the village.
~ Proverb
The fool sings a love song to his wife, the wise man will talk about his dog
~ Proverb
The spouse of a woman is a man; the spouse of a man is his livelihood
~ Proverb
The success of a man is through the soles of his feet, that of a woman is from her legs. #IWD2020
~ Proverb
Speech is the mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so is he.
~ Publilius Syrus
no será, entre otras, que la producción habiendo perdido de vista las necesidades del hombre, ha tomado una dirección absolutamente falsa y que su organización es defectuosa?
~ Pyotr Kropotkin