Manibus victoria dextris—Victory by my right hand. M.
Manifold is human strife, / Human passion, human pain; / Yet many blessings still are rife, / And many pleasures still remain. Goethe.
Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them. 25 Hawthorne.
Mankind are unco' weak, / And little to be trusted; / If self the wavering balance shake, / It's rarely right adjusted. Burns.
Mankind at large alway resemble frivolous children; they are impatient of thought, and wish to be amused. Emerson.
"Mankind follow their several bell-wethers; and if you hold a stick before the wether, so that he is forced to vault in his passage, the whole flock will do the like when the stick is withdrawn; and the thousandth sheep will be seen vaulting impetuously over air, as the first did over an otherwise impassable barrier." Carlyle, quoting Jean Paul.
Mankind in general agree in testifying their devotion, their gratitude, their friendship, or their love, by presenting whatever they hold dearest. Burns.
Mankind is a science that defies definitions. 30 Burns.
Mankind suffer to this hour, and will for long, as is like, because they do not know what to make of the fire of Prometheus. He dared to purloin from the gods and commit into the hands of ordinary men an element (fire), which, as the result has shown, only gods and their wise-hearted offspring can with safety handle. Ed.
Mankind will never lack obstacles to give it trouble, and the pressure of necessity to develop its powers. Goethe.