Man lives in Time, has his whole earthly being, endeavour, and destiny shaped for him by Time; only in the transitory Time-symbol is the ever-motionless eternity we stand on made manifest. Carlyle.
Man lives where he acts. Renan.
Man, living, feeling man, is the easy sport of the overmastering present. Schiller.
Man lobt den Künstler dann erst recht, wenn 5 man über sein Werk sein Lob vergisst—We first truly praise an artist when the merit of his work is such as to make us forget himself. Lessing.
Man löst sich nicht allmählich von dem Leben!—It is by no gradual process we detach ourselves from (lose our hold of) life. Schiller.
Man loves before he sees; his heart is open before his eyes; love must irradiate his world for him before he well knows he is in it, what it is made of, and what to make of it. Ed.
Man loves little and often, woman much and rarely. Basta.
Man, made of the dust of the world, does not forget his origin; and all that is yet inanimate will one day speak and reason. Emerson.
Man mag Amphion sein und Fels und Wald 10 bewegen, / Deswegen kann man doch nicht Bauern widerlegen—One may be a very Amphion and be able to move trees and rocks, and yet be unable to reduce peasants to reason. Gellert.
Man may doubt here and there, but mankind does not doubt. H. R. Haweis.