Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

The world has been made by fools that men should live in it

The world has been made by fools that men should live in it

Ye children of man! whose life is a span
Protracted with sorrow from day to day,
Naked read more

Ye children of man! whose life is a span
Protracted with sorrow from day to day,
Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous,
Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

Man is a piece of the universe made alive.

Man is a piece of the universe made alive.

There never was such beauty in another man.
Nature made him, and then broke the mould.
[Fr., read more

There never was such beauty in another man.
Nature made him, and then broke the mould.
[Fr., Non e un si bello in tante altre persone,
Natura il fece, e poi roppa la stampa.]

Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the
grave.

Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the
grave.

But now thy kingdom shall not continue: the Lord hath sought him
a man after his own heart, and read more

But now thy kingdom shall not continue: the Lord hath sought him
a man after his own heart, and the Lord hath commanded him to be
captain over his people, because thou hast not kept that which
the Lord commanded thee.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.