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.

Man is a political animal by nature; he is a scientist by chance or choice; he is a moralist because read more

Man is a political animal by nature; he is a scientist by chance or choice; he is a moralist because he is a man.

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

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.]

For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast
crowned him with glory and honour.

For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast
crowned him with glory and honour.

The man forget not, though in rags he lies,
And know the mortal through a crown's disguise.

The man forget not, though in rags he lies,
And know the mortal through a crown's disguise.

rnA man's got to do what a man's got to do. A woman must do what he can't.

rnA man's got to do what a man's got to do. A woman must do what he can't.