Socrates Quote

I will praise any man that will praise me.

William Shakespeare

• Praise

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

Plato

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

Abraham Lincoln

There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be constantly sick.

Sophocles

• Praise

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

Mark Twain

You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit.

Demosthenes

• Spirit

For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.

Aeschylus

A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly.

Mary Wortley Montagu

• Passion

I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.

John Keats

• Wisdom

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

Aristotle

• Praise

The accident was a horrible thing - but that horrible thing made Chris, at the end of his life, Superman. It's a happy irony if there is such a thing. I'm proud to have known him.

Morgan Freeman

Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.

John Keats

• Praise

False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth.

Hesiod

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

• Philosophy
• Desire
• Books
• Praise

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

Saint Basil

• Friendship
• Kindness

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

• Man
• Freedom

Neither blame or praise yourself.

Plutarch

• Self-discovery
• Praise

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.

Epicurus

• Man

The man who does ill must suffer ill.

Aeschylus

• Man