Ability in man is an apt good, if it be applied to good ends.
Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.
Being asked where in Greece he saw good men , he replied, "'Good men nowhere, but good boys at Sparta.
To arrive at perfection, a man should have very sincere friends or inveterate enemies; because he would be made sensible of his good or ill conduct, either by the censures of the one or the admonitions of the other.
It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.
When some one boasted that at the Pythian games he had vanquished men, Diogenes replied, "Nay, I defeat men, you defeat slaves .
The chief good is the suspension of the judgment [especially negative judgement], which tranquillity of mind follows like its shadow.
No man is hurt but by himself.
As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.
The only way to gall and fret effectively is for yourself to be a good and honest man.
When asked what was the proper time for supper: If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can.
It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
Good men nowhere, but good boys at Sparta.
The question was put to him, what hope is; and his answer was, "The dream of a waking man."
It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.
I am looking for an honest man.
Young men not ought to marry yet, and old men never ought to marry at all.
When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.
There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.
No man is hurt but by himself. ...Literally by how he interprets what happens to him. If he focusses on how it could have been better, he will be hurt. If he focusses on how it could have been worse, he will be happy. The same is true for women too.
Plato had defined Man as an animal, biped and featherless, and was applauded. Diogenes plucked a fowl and brought it into the lecture-room with the words, "Here is Plato's man.
Aristotle was asked how much educated men are superior to the uneducated: "As much," said he, "as the living are to the dead
Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.
I pissed on the man who called me a dog. Why was he so surprised?
In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.