Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.
Whence it is somewhat strange that any men from so mean and silly a practice should expect commendation, or that any should afford regard thereto; the which it is so far from meriting, that indeed contempt and abhorrence are due to it.
Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers.
Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.
Men's most superficial feelings lead them to prefer cruel laws. Nevertheless, when they are subjected to them themselves, it is in each man's interest that they be moderate, because the fear of being injured is greater than the desire to injure.
My father never was and isn't a mean man. You know, he never was ruthless. And he succeeded in life without sticking it to anybody. And that's a great example for a man, a strong man, a man's man, to give to his children. You can succeed, you can be successful, without walking over somebody.
We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness.
Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.
Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.