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For man is a plant, not fixed in the earth, nor immovable, but heavenly, whose head, rising as it were from a root upwards, is turned towards heaven.

Man is a wolf to man. [Lat., Homo homini lupus.]

Man is the plumeless genus of bipeds, birds are the plumed.

Of all the things which a man has, next to the gods his soul is the most divine and most truly his own.

I am in search of a man. [Lat., Hominem quaero.]

We are not more than a bubble. [Lat., Nos non pluris sumus quam bullae.]

He is pepper, not a man. [Lat., Piper, non homo.]

What a chimera, then, is man! what a novelty, what a monster, what a chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a prodigy! A judge of all things, feeble worm of the earth, depositary of the truth, cloaca of uncertainty and error, the glory and the shame of the universe!

It is of dangerous consequence to represent to man how near he is to the level of beasts, without showing him at the same time his greatness. It is likewise dangerous to let him see his greatness without his meanness. It is more dangerous yet to leave him ignorant of either; but very beneficial that he should be made sensible of both.

If man should commence by studying himself, he would see how impossible it is to go further.

All true manliness grows around a core of divineness.