Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world whereas nothing rises quicker than dust straw and feathers.

Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say but in the lives they lead.

I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.

I love all men who think even those who think otherwise than myself.

You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds you will lose and we will win.

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge.

It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.

The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.

Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.