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| The few men who have managed to reach heaven must be terribly spoiled by this time | | Edgar Watson Howe | |
| The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization. | | Sigmund Freud | |
| The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens. | | D.H. Lawrence | |
| The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends. | | Friedrich Nietzsche | |
| The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth. | | Henry Louis Mencken | |
| The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old. | | William James | |
| The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him | | Arthur Schopenhauer | |
| The most important thing for a young man is to establish credit - a reputation and character. | | John D. Rockefeller | |
| The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men | | Plato | |
| The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing | | Blaise Pascal | |
| The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another | | Friedrich Nietzsche | |
| The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame | | Thomas Hobbes | |
| The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell. | | Confucius | |
| The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their clay but abides everywhere without visible symbol woven into the stuff of other mens lives. | | Pericles | |
| The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worth-while to live | | Aristotle | |
| The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool | | George Santayana | |
| There are few men who durst publish to the world the prayers they make to God | | Michel de Montaigne | |
| There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory. | | Marcel Proust | |
| There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere man | | Edgar Allan Poe | |
| This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble. | | Ludwig van Beethoven | |
