Conscience Quote by John Stuart Mill

For some men, the stronger their desire, the more difficult it is for them to act.

— Gustave Flaubert

Men frequently do good only to give themselves opportunity of doing ill with impunity.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Men cannot expect to do ill and fare well, but to find that done to them which they did to others.

— Matthew Henry

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

“It happens very often that those whom men esteem highly are more seriously endangered by their own excessive confidence. Hence, for many it is…

— Thomas à Kempis

Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are…

— Augustus Hare

It is false to suggest that men must turn away from his desires in the interest of a higher duty. Men only responds to…

— Bertrand Russell

Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.

— Martha Graham

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not…

— Blaise Pascal

Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ought to…

— Mencius

Men seldom act from a correct sense of what may be harmful or useful to them.

— Giacomo Leopardi

Men freely believe that which they desire.

— Julius Caesar