22 quotes
“Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.”
— Plato
“Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.”
— Paul Gauguin
“Man is by nature a social animal.”
— Aristotle
“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
“Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self-interest.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte
“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
“Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.”
— E.M. Forster
“He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.”
— Benjamin Franklin
“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 deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.”
— William James
“At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.”
“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
“Hope springs eternal in the human breast; man never is, but always to be blest.”
— Alexander Pope
“The human capacity for burden is like bamboo — far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.”
— Jodi Picoult
“The love of justice is simply, in the majority of men, the fear of suffering injustice.”
— François de La Rochefoucauld
“The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.”
— William Blake
“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 natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.”
— Samuel Johnson
“The life of man (in a state of nature) is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.”
— Thomas Hobbes
“I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.”
— John Locke
“We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.”
— Thomas Fuller
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