Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.
Oall the creatures that creep and breathe on earth, there is none more wretched than man.
I would rather be a serf in a poor man's house and be above ground than reign among the dead.
All men have need of the gods.
The man that isn't jolly after drinking is just a drivelling idiot, to my thinking.
That glittering hope is immemorial and beckons many men to their undoing.
The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind bravery if forethought.
Men hate the haughty of heart who will not be the friend of every man.
Fate finds for every man; his share of misery.
Those who are held Wise among men and who search the reasons of things, are those who bring the most sorrow on themselves.
It's man's to fight, but heaven's to give success.
Man is his own star, and the soul that can, render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate: nothing to him falls early or too late. Our acts are angels are, for good or ill: our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
Zeus most glorious and most great, Thundercloud, throned in the heavens! Let not the sun go down and the darkness come, until I cast down headlong the citadel of Priam in flames, and burn his gates with blazing fire, and tear to rags the shirt upon Hectors breast! May many of his men fall about him prone in the dust and bite the earth!
All creation is a mine, and every man a miner. The whole earth, and all within it, upon it, and round about it, including himself ... are the infinitely various "leads" from which, man, from the first, was to dig out his destiny.
Man at last knows that he is alone in the unfeeling immensity of the universe, out of which he emerged only by chance. Neither his destiny nor his duty have been written down. The kingdom above or the darkness below: it is for him to choose.
What fates impose, that men must needs abide; it boots not to resist both wind and tide.
A man convinced of his own merit will accept misfortune as an honor, for thus can he persuade others, as well as himself, that he is a worthy target for the arrows of fate.
Fate rules the affairs of men, with no recognizable order.
In every age he had ever studied, doomsayers abounded. No millennium is attractive to the man immured in it; enough prophecies have been made in antiquity that one who desires, in any age, to take the position that apocalypse is at hand can easily defend it. He would not join that dour order; he would not worry about anything but Tempus, and the matter awaiting his attention.
The men and woman who make the best boon companions seem to have given up hope of doing something else...some defect of talent or opportunity has cut them off from their pet ambition and has thus left them with leisure to take an interest in their lives of others. Your ambition may be, it makes him keep his thoughts at home. But the heartbroken people - if I may use the word in a mild, benevolent sense - the people whose wills are subdued to fate, give us consolation, recognition, and welcome.
It is usually more important how a man meets his fate than what it is.
The power of one man or one woman doing the right thing for the right reason, and at the right time, is the greatest influence in our society.
My father was an amazing man. The older I got, the smarter he got.
Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.
In our case, murder being once for all forbidden, we may not destroy even the foetus in the womb, while as yet the human being derives blood from other parts of the body for its sustenance. To hinder a birth is merely a speedier mankilling; nor does it matter whether you take away a life that is born, or destroy one that is coming to the birth. That is a man which is going to be one; you have the fruit already in the seed.
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