Famous Quotes

"If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another."

Epicurus on Men

More quotes about Men

• "It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men."

  Frederick Douglass on Men

• "I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman."

  Anais Nin on Men

• "Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance."

  Oscar Wilde on Men

• "Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?"

  Confucius on Men

• "Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men."

  Mahatma Gandhi on Men

More quotes by Epicurus

• "The art of living well and the art of dying well are one."

• "You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity."

• "It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls."

• "Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist."

• "It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble."