Famous Quotes

"It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores."

Lucius Annaeus Seneca 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 Lucius Annaeus Seneca

• "Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders."

• "Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it."

• "The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger."

• "Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured."

• "The greatest remedy for anger is delay."