Famous Quotes

"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."

Plato 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 Plato

• "He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden."

• "Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences."

• "There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot."

• "The beginning is the most important part of the work."

• "Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men."