“The vice of envy is not only a dangerous, but a mean vice; for it is always a confession of inferiority. It may promote conduct which will be fruitful of wrong to others, and it must cause misery to the man who feels it.” MenFeelsMayMeanCausesDangerousHe ManMiseryVicesEnvyConfessionInferiority Author:Theodore Roosevelt
“The good devout man first makes inner preparation for the actions he has later to perform. His outward actions do not draw him into lust and vice; rather it is he who bends them into the shape of reason and right judgement. Who has a stiffer battle to fight than the man who is striving to conquer himself.” MenFirstsReasonActionFightingHe ManBattleShapesDrawsStriveVicesLustConquerPreparationJudgement Author:Thomas a Kempis
“Women are being considered as candidates for vice-president of the United States because it is the worst job in America. It's amazing that men will take it. A job with real power is first lady. I'd be willing to run for that. As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.” PeopleMenFirstsRealStatesRunningJobsAmericaPresidentUnitedUnited StatesWorstWillingHe ManConcernedVicesCandidatesVice PresidentFirst LadyReal PowerJobs In America Author:Nora Ephron
“As a stick, when once it is dry and stiff you may break it, but you can never bend it into a straighter posture; so doth the man become incorrigible who is settled and stiffened into vice.” MenMayBreakHe ManSticksVicesDryPostureIncorrigible Book:Works Source: Works
“I find it awfully difficult to determine if the habit of talking about oneself at length runs contrary to the basic rules of propriety, or if instead the man exempt from this vice is rare.” IfsMenRunningDifficultTalkingHe ManHabitOneselfDetermineVicesContraryLengthPropriety Author:Giacomo Leopardi
“It is unnatural that a pure stream should flow from a foul fountain its vices are but a continuation of the vices of its origin. A man of moral honor and good political principles, cannot submit to the mean drudgery and disgraceful arts, by which such elections are carried. To be a successful candidate, he must be destitute of the qualities that constitute a just legislator: and being thus disciplined to corruption it is not to be expected that the representative should be better than the man.” MenShouldMeanArtPoliticalPoliticsQualityMoralPrinciplesSuccessfulHe ManHonorPureFlowElectionVicesCorruptionExpectedStreamsCandidatesSubmitRepresentativesFountainUnnaturalFoulLegislatorsContinuationDrudgeryDisgracefulDestituteGood Political Author:Thomas Paine