“A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.”

“A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.”

George Jean Nathan (1882–1958) American drama critic and magazine editor

“It turns out that one can perpetrate all manner of heinous villainy under a cloak of courtesy and good cheer… a man will forfeit all sensible self-interest if he finds you affable enough to share your company over a flagon of ale.”

Christopher Moore book Fool

“[A] brilliant man is his own best company, unless he can find other company of the same sort.”

Julien Offray de La Mettrie book Man a Machine

“When the virus of restlessness begins to take possession of a wayward man, and the road away from Here seems broad and straight and sweet, the victim must first find himself a good and sufficient reason for going.”

John Steinbeck (1902–1968) American writer

“A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.”

Charles Evans Hughes (1862–1948) American judge

“It’s all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

“War is a serious game in which a man risks his reputation, his troops, and his country. A sensible man will search himself to know whether or not he is fitted for the trade.”

Napoleon I of France (1769–1821) French general, First Consul and later Emperor of the French

“Man needs to go outside himself in order to find repose and reveal himself.”

José Martí (1853–1895) Poet, writer, Cuban nationalist leader

“A greedy man will always find himself in the shackles of humility.”

Ali book Nahj al-Balagha