Malus est enim custos diuturnitatis metus, contraque benevolentia fidelis vel ad perpetuitatem—Fear is a bad preserver of that which is intended to last; whereas mildness and good-will ensure fidelity for ever. Cic.
Malus usus est abolendus—An evil custom should 40 be abolished. L.
Mammon has enriched his thousands, and has damned his ten thousands. South.
Mammon, the least erected spirit that fell / From heaven. Milton.
Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair. Byron.
Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed. Sir W. Temple.
Man always worships something; always he 45 sees the infinite shadowed forth in something finite; and indeed can and must so see it in any finite thing, once tempt him well to fix his eyes thereon. Carlyle.
Man am I grown, a man's work must I do. / Follow the deer? follow the Christ, the King, / Live pure, speak true, right wrong, follow the King—/ Else wherefore born? Tennyson.
Man and man only can do the impossible; / ... He to the moment endurance can lend. Goethe.
Man becomes greater in proportion as he learns to know himself and his faculty. Let him once become conscious of what he is, and he will soon also learn to be what he should. Schelling.