“Each man reaps on his own farm.”
Act III, sc. 2, line 112; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Mostellaria (The Haunted House)
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Roman comic playwright of the Old Latin period -254–-184 BCRelated quotes
“Each man dreams his own heaven.”
John Connolly The Book of Lost Things
Source: The Book of Lost Things
Friedrich Nietzsche book Human, All Too Human
Section IX, "Man Alone with Himself" / aphorism 513
Human, All Too Human (1878), Helen Zimmern translation
“Let each man have the wit to go his own way.”
Unus quisque sua noverit ire via.
Propertius (-47–-16 BC) Latin elegiac poet
II, xxv, 38.
Elegies
“Until a man might travel twelve stout miles,
Or reap an acre of his neighbor's corn.”
William Wordsworth (1770–1850) English Romantic poet
The Brothers.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Each man has two countries, I think: His own, and France.”
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …
Henri de Bornier, La Fille de Roland, act III, scene ii, p. 65 (1875): "Tout homme a deux pays, le sien et puis la France!" <br class="br">Also misattributed to Thomas Jefferson in 1880 http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=940CE2DB143FEE3ABC4151DFB166838B699FDE <br class="br">Misattributed
“In their religion they are so uneven,
That each man goes his own byway to heaven.”
Daniel Defoe (1660–1731) English trader, writer and journalist
Pt. II, l. 104. <br class="br"> The True-Born Englishman http://www.luminarium.org/editions/trueborn.htm (1701)
“Each man does seek his own interest, but, unfortunately, not according to the dictates of reason.”
Kenneth N. Waltz book Man, the State, and War
Source: Man, the State, and War (1959), Chapter II, The First Image, p. 23
Aldo Leopold (1887–1948) American writer and scientist
"The Conservation Ethic" [1933]; Published in The River of the Mother of God and Other Essays by Aldo Leopold, Susan L. Flader and J. Baird Callicott (eds.) 1991, p. 191.
1930s