Man Quotes

• "Man is man's A, B, C. There's none that can Read God aright, unless he first spell man."
  By: Francis Quarles, Hieroglyphics of the Life of Man
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• "God hath given to mankind a common library, his creatures; and to every man a proper book, himself, being an abridgement of all the others: if thou read with understanding, it will make thee a great master of philosophy, and a true servant to the divine Author; if thou but barely read, it will make thee thy own wise man, and the Author's fool."
  By: Francis Quarles
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• "That man is the measure of all things."
  By: Protagoras, in Plato's "Theaetetus"
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• "Man is the measure of all things."
  By: Protagoras, quoted as his philosophical principle
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• "So, if unprejudiced you scan The going of this clock-work, man, You find a hundred movements made By fine devices in his head; But 'tis the stomach's solid stroke That tells his being what's o'clock."
  By: Matthew Prior, Alma (pt. III, l. 272)
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• "No more was seen the human form divine."
  By: Alexander Pope, Homer's Odyssey (bk. X, l. 278)
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• "Virtuous and vicious every man must be, Few in the extreme, but all in the degree."
  By: Alexander Pope, Essay on Man (ep. II, l. 231)
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• "Chaos of thought and passion, all confused; Still by himself abused and disabused; Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled; The glory, jest and riddle of the world!"
  By: Alexander Pope, Essay on Man (ep. II, l. 13)
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• "A minister, but still a man."
  By: Alexander Pope, Epistle to James Craggs
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• "Vast chain of being, which from God began, Nature's ethereal, human, angel, man."
  By: Alexander Pope
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• "The proper study of mankind is man."
  By: Alexander Pope
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• "The lot of man, to suffer and to die."
  By: Alexander Pope
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• "Mankind is unamendable."
  By: Alexander Pope
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• "For man is a plant, not fixed in the earth, nor immovable, but heavenly, whose head, rising as it were from a root upwards, is turned towards heaven."
  By: Plutarch
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• "Man is a wolf to man. [Lat., Homo homini lupus.]"
  By: Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus), Asinaria (II, 4, 88)
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• "Man is the plumeless genus of bipeds, birds are the plumed."
  By: Plato (originally Aristocles}, Politicus (266)
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