Credit Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“men are guilty of the greatest crimes from ambition, and not from necessity,”

— Aristotle

With man, most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.

— Pliny the Elder

I do not myself believe there is any misfortune. What men call such is merely the shadowside of a good.

— George MacDonald

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

Most men only commit great crimes because of their scruples about petty ones.

— Jean Francois Paul de Gondi

A great cause of evil in the world is that men seldom think themselves criminal if they offer the same injustice to others that…

— Norm MacDonald

“Misfortune is liable to make me a damn bad man”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Misfortune is a fact of nature acceptable to women, especially when it falls on other women.”

— John Steinbeck

Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known than their crimes.

— Lord Chesterfield

Why is there this criminal indifference to the lostness of men? Our condemnation is that we know how to live better than we are…

— Leonard Ravenhill

It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which…

— Lord Melbourne

Nothing more unqualified the man to act with prudence than a misfortune that is attended with shame and guilt.

— Jonathan Swift