A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied. All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. Such is the claim. - … Always.”.
A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery.”, “When you look for a man- what you want to look for is a man with the heart of a poor boy and the mind of a conqueror.”. Maps and mazes.
If a woman calls a man to her bed and he will not go.”, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead, Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings.
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool. In truth, man is incurably foolish.
We all need to just fly.
Welcome back. Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
The death of one man is a tragedy. “Man is not, by nature, deserving of all that he wants. Of a thing which could not be put back. No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like. The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true. Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children? What important is man should live in righteousness, in natural love for mankind. They lived together in peace; even affectionately. Among my experiments was this.
Simple things which other animals easily learn, he is incapable of learning. “Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.”, “You can judge a man's true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.”, “The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.”, “When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.”, “And therein lies the whole of man's plight.
If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life. I put them in a cage. Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
In the course of two days I was able to add a fox, a goose, a squirrel and some doves. God has a very big heart, but there is one sin He will not forgive. Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar. Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. “Man is the Reasoning Animal. Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
Yet when confronted with such a creature reverence often evolves into resent.