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