Associates Quote by Confucius

In everything the middle course is best: all things in excess bring trouble to men.

— Titus Maccius Plautus

“Nowadays, when more subtle studies and more refined taste have reduced the art of pleasing into principles, a vile and misleading uniformity governs our…

— Jean Jacques Rousseau

“The majority of men is composed of two classes, for neither of which would this be at all a befitting resolution: in the first…

— René Descartes

Men generally decide upon a middle course, which is most hazardous, for they know neither how to be entirely good nor entirely bad.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.

— Francis Bacon

I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious…

— Leo Tolstoy

“It is eminently reasonable that men should seek to associate with those who share their convictions and values. It is impossible to deal or…

— Ayn Rand

The conduct of men depends upon the temperament, not upon a bunch of musty maxims.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Those who seek to impress upon us that they are gentlemen will usually be found mistaken.

— Eden Phillpotts

Men commonly think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and imbibed opinions, but generally act according to custom

— Francis Bacon Sr

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

— Henry David Thoreau

Men have always shown a dim knowledge of their better potentialities by paying homage to those purest leaders who taught the simplest and most…

— Erik Erikson