23 quotes
“I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.”
— John Locke
“The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.”
— Samuel Johnson
“Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.”
— Paul Gauguin
“At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.”
— Aristotle
“There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice, and nothing which we stand in so much need of as time.”
— Joseph Addison
“The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.”
— Germaine de Staël
“The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.”
— William Blake
“To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.”
— Adam Smith
“We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.”
— Thomas Fuller
“We do not what we ought, what we ought not we do, and lean upon the thought that chance will bring us through.”
— Matthew Arnold
“The love of justice is simply, in the majority of men, the fear of suffering injustice.”
— François de La Rochefoucauld
“The life of man (in a state of nature) is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.”
— Thomas Hobbes
“The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.”
— William James
“Man is by nature a social animal.”
“He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.”
— Benjamin Franklin
“There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing — but we all do and call it Hope.”
— Edgar Watson Howe
“Success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan.”
— Tacitus
“Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.”
— Plato
“Hope springs eternal in the human breast; man never is, but always to be blest.”
— Alexander Pope
“Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self-interest.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte
“Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.”
— E.M. Forster
“The human capacity for burden is like bamboo — far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.”
— Jodi Picoult
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