Plato

Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.

Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

There are three classes of men lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.