"What a chimera, then, is man! what a novelty, what a monster, what a chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a prodigy! A judge of all things, feeble worm of the earth, depositary of the truth, cloaca of uncertainty and error, the glory and the shame of the universe!"

"Os homini sublime dedit cœlumque tueri Jussit; et erectos ad sidera tollere vultus."

"Man's the bad child of the universe."

"I teach you beyond Man [Uebermensch; overman-superman]. Man is something that shall be surpassed. What have you done to surpass him?"

"The mould is lost wherein was made This a per se of all."

"Ah! pour être devot, je n'en suis pas moins homme."

"Hominem pagina nostra sapit."

"A man! A man! My kingdom for a man!"

"The hearts of men are their books; events are their tutors; great actions are their eloquence."

"Before man made us citizens, great Nature made us men."

"As man; false man, smiling destructive man."

"Il est plus aisé de connaître l'homme en général que de connaître un homme en particulier."

"Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens."

"If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; * * * * * * Yours is the Earth and every thing that's in it, And—which is more—you'll be a man, my son!"

"Though I've belted you and flayed you, By the livin' Gawd that made you, You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din."

"Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble."

"The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself."

"Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils."

"Man passes away; his name perishes from record and recollection; his history is as a tale that is told, and his very monument becomes a ruin."

"Man dwells apart, though not alone, He walks among his peers unread; The best of thoughts which he hath known For lack of listeners are not said."

"Ad unguem factus homo."

"Metiri se quemque suo modulo ac pede verum est."

"Pulvis et umbra sumus."

"The fool of fate, thy manufacture, man."

"Forget the brother and resume the man."

"Like leaves on trees the race of man is found,— Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies; They fall successive; and successive rise."

"God give us men. A time like this demands Strong minds, great hearts, true faith and ready hands! Men whom the lust of office does not kill, Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy, Men who possess opinions and a will, Men who love honor, men who cannot lie."

"Man is one world, and hath Another to attend him."

"Man is all symmetrie, Full of proportions, one limbe to another, And all to all the world besides: Each part may call the farthest, brother: For head with foot hath privite amitie, And both with moons and tides."

"A king may spille, a king may save; A king may make of lorde a knave; And of a knave a lorde also."

"Lass uns, geliebter Bruder, nicht vergessen, Dass von sich selbst der Mensch nicht scheiden kann."

"Die Menschen fürchtet nur, wer sie nicht kennt Und wer sie meidet, wird sie bald verkennen."

"Stood I, O Nature! man alone in thee, Then were it worth one's while a man to be."

"Aye, think! since time and life began, Your mind has only feared and slept; Of all the beasts they called you man Only because you toiled and wept."

"Man is a tool making animal."

"Man is his own star, and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light."

"A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man."

"Men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness."

"There is no Theam more plentiful to scan, Then is the glorious goodly Frame of Man."

"How dull, and how insensible a beast Is man, who yet would lord it o'er the rest."

"This is the porcelain clay of humankind."

"Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full of cravings too, and full as vain."

"A sacred spark created by his breath, The immortal mind of man his image bears; A spirit living 'midst the forms of death, Oppressed, but not subdued, by mortal cares."

"But strive still to be a man before your mother."

"An honest man, close-buttoned to the chin, Broadcloth without, and a warm heart within."

"The first man is of the earth, earthy."