MAN
Nos non pluris sumus quam bulke.
We are not more than a bubble.
Petrontus. 42.
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| text = Piper, non homo.
| trans = He is pepper, not a man.
| author = Petronius.
| topic = Man
| page = 491
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| text = <poem>Hominem qusero.
I am in search of a man.
Paedrus—Fables. Bk. III. 19. 9.
Man is the plumeless genus of bipeds, hire's
are the plumed.
Plato—Politicus. 266. Diogenes produced a plucked cock, saying, "Here is Plato's man." Diogenes Laertius. Bk. VI. 2.
Homo homini lupus.
Man is a wolf to man.
Plautus—Asinaria. XI. 4. 88.
A minister, but still a man.
| author = Pope
| work = Epistle to James Craggs.
So man, who here seems principal alone,
Perhaps acts second to some sphere unknown
Touches some wheel, or verges to some goal;
’Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
| author = Pope
| work = Essay on Man.
| place = Ep. I. L. 57.
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan;
The proper study of mankind is man.
| author = Pope
| work = Essay on Man.
| place = Ep. II. L. 1. In
Pope's first ed. of Moral Essays it read "The
only science of mankind is man." For the
last phrase see Grote—History of Greece.
Vol. LX. P. 573. Ascribed to Socrates;
also to Xenophon—Memor. I. 1.
| seealso = (See also Charron, Quarles, also Diogenes under Knowledge)
Chaos of thought and passion, all confused;
Still by himself abused and disabused;
Created half to rise, and half to fall;
Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all;
Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled;
The glory, jest and riddle of the world!
| author = Pope
| work = Essay on Man.
| place = Ep. II. L. 13.
Virtuous and vicious every man must be,
Few in the extreme, but all in the degree.
An honest man's the noblest work of God.
| author = Pope
| work = Essay on Man.
| place = Ep. IV. L. 248.
No more was seen the human form divine.
| author = Pope
| work = Homer's Odyssey. Bk. X. L. 278.
So, if unprejudiced you scan
The going of this clock-work, man,
You find a hundred movements made
By fine devices in his head;
But 'tis the stomach's solid stroke
That tells his being what's o'clock.
Prior—Alma. Pt. III. L. 272.
MAN
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Man is the measure of all things.
Protagoras. Quoted as his philosophical
principle.
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| text = Thou hast made him a little lower than the
angels.
Psalms. VIII. 5.
Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright.
Psalms. XXXVII. 37.
Man is man's A, B, C. There's none that can
Read God aright, unless he first spell man.
Quarles—Hieroglyptics of the Life of Man.
| seealso = (See also Pope)
Quit yourselves like men.
I Samuel. IV. 9.
A man after his own heart.
I Samuel. XIII. 14.
Thou art the man.
II Samuel. XII. 7.
Der Mensch ist, der lebendig fuhlende,
Der leichte Raub des macht'gen Augenblicks.
Man, living, feeling man is the easy prey
of the powerful present.
Schiller—Die Jungfrau van Orleans. III.
4. 54.
"How poor a thing is man!" alas 'tis true, '(
I'd half forgot it when I chanced" on you.
Schiller—The Moral Poet.
| seealso = (See also {{sc|Dandsl)
Men have died from time to time and worms
have eaten them, but not for love.
As You Like It. Act IV. Sc. 1. L. 105.
He was a man, take him for all in all,
I shall not look upon his like again.
Hamlet. Act I. Sc. 2. L. 187.
What a piece of work is a man! how noble
in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form
and moving how express and admirable! in
action how like an angel! in apprehension
how like a god! the beauty of the world! the
paragon of animals! And, yet, to me, what
is this quintessence of dust? man delights not
me: no, nor woman neither, though by your
smiling, you seem to say so.
Hamlet. ActXl. Sc. 2. L. 313.
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I have thought some of Nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well,
they imitated humanity so abominably.
Hamlet. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 37.
Give me that man
That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him
In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart
As I do thee.
Hamlet. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 76.
[ 2s What is a man,
If his chief good and market of his time
Be but to sleep and feed?
Hamlet. Act IV. Sc. 4. L. S3.
