Great Throughts Treasury

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Related Quotes

Publius Syrus

One ungrateful man does an injury to all who stand in need of aid.

Aid | Character | Man | Need |

Publius Syrus

Whatever can happen to one man can happen to every man.

Character | Man |

Cardinal de Retz, Jean Francois-Paul de Gondil

A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyone else.

Character | Man | Trust |

Jules Renard, aka Pierre-Jules Renard

Life is what our character makes it. We fashion it, as a snail does its shell. A man can say: "I never made a fortune because it is not in my character to be rich."

Character | Fortune | Life | Life | Man |

Publius Syrus

The avaricious man is good to none - worst to himself.

Character | Good | Man |

Theodor Reik

The small share of happiness attainable by man exists only insofar as he is able to cease to think of himself.

Character | Man | Happiness | Think |

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

An honest man nearly always thinks justly.

Character | Man |

Sallust, full name Carus Valerius Sailustius Crispus NULL

Every man is the architect of his own future (fortune).

Character | Fortune | Future | Man |

Fulton Sheen, fully Archbishop Fulton John Sheen

An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.

Character | Man | Means |

Roy L. Smith, aka Mr. Methodist

As a man grows older, he values the voice of experience more and the voice of prophecy less. He finds more of life's wealth in the common pleasures - home, health, children. He thinks more about worth of men and less about their wealth. He boasts less and boosts more. He hurries less, and usually makes more progress. He esteems the friendship of God a little higher.

Character | Children | Experience | God | Health | Life | Life | Little | Man | Men | Progress | Prophecy | Wealth | Worth | Friendship | God |