To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.

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Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.

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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. ― Leo Tolstoy

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The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.― Mark Twain

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The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.

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Ain't fit for man nor beast ― W.C. Fields

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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. ― George Bernard Shaw

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Men's natures are alike, it is their habits that carry them far apart.

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