All things Quote by Henry David Thoreau

All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.

— Sophocles

Men have their virtues and their vices, their heroisms and their perversities; men are neither wholly good nor wholly bad, but possess and practice…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Men always try to make virtues of their weaknesses. Fear of death and fear of life both become piety.

— Anonymous

A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.

— Sallust

However different men's fortunes may be, there is always something or other that balances the ill and the good, and makes all even at…

— Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

A man is great not because he hasn't failed; a man is great because failure hasn't stopped him.

— Confucius

They say best men are molded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad

— William Shakespeare

“Men cannot imagine themselves being the victim of wrongs which they find it quite natural to inflict upon others. But when that, in fact,…

— Simone Weil

When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is…

— Anonymous

Men never do good unless necessity drives them to it; but when they are free to choose and can do just as they please,…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Men have a trick of coming up to what is expected of them, good or bad.

— Jacob August Riis

A man is not good or bad for one action.

— Thomas Fuller