Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent. Walpole.
Men are oftener treacherous through weakness than design. La Roche.
Men are readier to forgive calumny than admonition (Ermahnung). Jean Paul.
Men are respectable only as they respect. Emerson.
Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and 20 good sense at the same time. Livy.
Men are seldom more innocently employed than when they are making money. Johnson.
Men are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake himself what he sees done by others, whether he has aptitude for it or not. Goethe.
Men are solitary among each other; no one will help his neighbour; each has even to assume a defensive attitude lest his neighbour should hinder him. Carlyle.
Men are tatooed with their special beliefs like so many South Sea islanders; but a real human heart, with divine love in it, beats with the same glow under all the patterns of all earth's thousand tribes. Holmes.
Men are the sport of circumstances, when 25 the circumstances seem the sport of men. Byron.