Famous Quotes

"False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared."

Charles de Montesquieu 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 Charles de Montesquieu

• "It is not the young people that degenerate they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption."

• "Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death."

• "We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death."

• "I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve."

• "There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion."