Homines amplius oculis quam auribus credunt: longum iter est per præcepta, breve et efficax per exempla—Men trust their eyes rather than their ears: the road by precept is long and tedious, by example short and effectual. Sen.
Homines nihil agendo discunt male agere—By doing nothing men learn to do ill. Cato.
Homines plus in alieno negotio videre, quam 45 in suo—Men see better into other people's business than their own. Sen.
Homines proniores sunt ad voluptatem, quam ad virtutem—Men are more prone to pleasure than to virtue. Cic.
Homines, quo plura habent, eo cupiunt ampliora—The more men have, the more they want. Justin.
Homini necesse est mori—Man must die. Cic.
Homini ne fidas nisi cum quo modium satis absumpseres—Trust no man till you have eaten a peck of salt with him, i.e., known him so long as you might have done so. Pr.
Hominibus plenum, amicis vacuum—Full of men, vacant of friends. Sen.
Hominis est errare, insipientis perseverare—It is the nature of man to err, of a fool to persevere in error.
Hominum sententia fallax—The opinions of men are fallible. Ovid.