The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.Aristotle
At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.Aristotle
Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.Friedrich Nietzsche
It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.Benjamin Franklin
A man is not little when he finds it difficult to cope with circumstances, but when circumstances overmaster him.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.George Bernard Shaw