Conflict Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

He is good and wise who always speaks the truth, acts on the dictates of virtue, and tries to make others good and happy.

— Dayananda Saraswati

He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

— George Bernard Shaw

Man (in good earnest) is a marvellous vain, fickle, and unstable subject, and on whom it is very hard to form any certain and…

— Michel de Montaigne

He is an eloquent man who can treat humble subjects with delicacy, lofty things impressively, and moderate things temperately.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

He who believes in goodness has the essence of all faith. He is a man of cheerful yesterdays and confident to-morrows.

— James Freeman Clarke

Truly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgment on him.

— Michel de Montaigne

He that is warm for truth, and fearless in its defense, performs one of the duties of a good man; he strenghtens his own…

— Samuel Johnson

The first virtue of all really great men is that they are sincere. They eradicate hypocrisy from their hearts.

— Anatole France

Like all virtuous people he imagines he must speak the truth.

— Joyce Carol Oates

The prudent man does himself good; the virtuous one does it to other men.

— Voltaire

An honest, sensible, humane man, . . . laboring to do good rather than be rich, to be useful rather than make a show,…

— John Adams

He who is sincere hath the easiest task in the world, for, truth being always consistent with itself, he is put to no trouble…

— John Tillotson