Companion Quote by Francesco Guicciardini

[Con] men have long known . . . that their job is not to convince skeptics but to enable the gullible to continue to…

— Thomas Sowell

It is well known to all great men, that by conferring an obligation they do not always procure a friend, but are certain of…

— Henry Fielding

I see and hear daily that you of the Clergy preach one against another, teach one contrary to another, inveigh one against another without…

— Henry VIII of England

Men who do not contend in earnest can have little warmth and fervor in what they undertake, and are more than half prepared to…

— William Godwin

The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction.

— Thomas Huxley

There are no events so disastrous that adroit men do not draw some advantage from them, nor any so fortunate that the imprudent cannot…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“And if this should lighten the toil of men," said Similarity 5-0306, "then it is a great evil, for men have no cause to…

— Ayn Rand

Men are passionate, men are weak, men are stupid, men are pitiful; to bring to bear on them anything so tremendous as the wrath…

— William Somerset Maugham

The past record of man is burdened with accounts of assasinations, secret combines, palace plots and betrayals in war. But in spite of this…

— G. Edward Griffin

It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.

— Thucydides

Still, instead of trusting what their own minds tell them, men have as a rule a weakness for trusting others who pretend to supernatural…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another.

— J. William Fulbright