Consequence Quote by Aristotle

“An individual can be hurt in countless ways by other men's irrationality, dishonesty, injustice. Above all, he can be disappointed, perhaps grievously, by the…

— Leonard Peikoff

Whatsoever then you have well in this world, when you recollect to have done any thing good, be very fearful about it, lest the…

— Pope Gregory I

men are undoubtedly more in danger from prosperity than from adversity. for when matters go smoothly, they flatter themselves, and are intoxicated by their…

— John Calvin

Bad circumstances have a way of ruining things that would otherwise be pleasant.

— Anonymous

Men are always thinking that they are going to do something grandly wicked to their enemies; but when it comes to the point, really…

— George Bernard Shaw

There are two things at which most men are grieved: when their faults are exposed, and when their virtues are concealed.

— Norm MacDonald

A good man not only forbears those gratifications which are forbidden by reason and religion, but even restrains himself in unforbidden instances.

— Francis Atterbury

You are mistaken, my friend, if you think that a man who is worth anything ought to spend his time weighing up the prospects…

— Plato

The reason why great men meet with so little pity or attachment in adversity, would seem to be this: the friends of a great…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a mixture of…

— Baron de Montesquieu

“It is not true that men never change; they change for the worse, as well as for the better. It is not true they…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is…

— Sophocles