Adversaries Quote by Baltasar Gracian

He had long ago learned that society imposes insults that must be borne, comforted by the knowledge that in this world there comes a…

— Mario Puzo

The good-humor of a man elated with success often displays itself towards enemies.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

A fool acquires knowledge only to his own disadvantage. It destroys what good he has, and turns his brains.

— Gautama Buddha

Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.

— Charles de Gaulle

“A man can smile and smile and be a villain. Remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, kindless villain. What”

— Aldous Huxley

Man is a willful and covetous animal, who makes use of his intellect to satisfy his inclinations, but who cares nothing for truth, who…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

“There is nothing by which a man exasperates most people more, than displaying a superior ability of briliancy in conversation. They seem pleased at…

— Samuel Johnson

He who indulges his sense in any excesses renders himself obnoxious to his own reason; and, to gratify the brute in him, displeases the…

— Walter Scott

A man who wants to do evil takes advise as jokes.

— Chanda Chimfwembe

A vile and overbearing temper becomes sometimes, in one long accustomed to the exercise of power, unendurable to those who are subject to its…

— Samuel Freeman Miller

A man should be careful never to tell tales of himself to his own disadvantage. People may be amused at the time, but they…

— Samuel Johnson

A cunning fellow is man, inventive beyond all expectation, he reaches sometimes evil and sometimes good

— Sophocles