Men

Famous quotes containing the word men:

“Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts.”
—Titus Livius (Livy)

“In sum, all actions and habits are to be esteemed good or evil by their causes and usefulness in reference to the commonwealth, and not by their mediocrity, nor by their being commended. For several men praise several customs, and, contrarily, what one calls vice, another calls virtue, as their present affections lead them.”
—Thomas Hobbes (1579–1688)

“Every man is entitled to come to Cattle-Show, even a transcendentalist; and for my part I am more interested in the men than in the cattle.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)