“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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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.
II, xxv, 38.
Elegies
“Until a man might travel twelve stout miles,
Or reap an acre of his neighbor's corn.”
The Brothers.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Each man has two countries, I think: His own, and France.”
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!"
Also misattributed to Thomas Jefferson in 1880 http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=940CE2DB143FEE3ABC4151DFB166838B699FDE
Misattributed
“In their religion they are so uneven,
That each man goes his own byway to heaven.”
Pt. II, l. 104.
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.”
Source: Man, the State, and War (1959), Chapter II, The First Image, p. 23
"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