Clever Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.

— Voltaire

Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because there is nothing to be gained by him.

— Voltaire

In almost everything I've written there is a thread of this: man's seemingly palpable need to dislike someone other than himself.

— Rod Serling

Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

We should be slower to think that the man at his worst is the real man, and certain that the better we are ourselves…

— James M. Barrie

I am looking for the human who admits his flaws Who shocks the adversary By being kinder not stronger What would that be like?…

— Naomi Shihab Nye

Tell a scoundrel, three or four times a day, that he is the pink of probity, and you make him at least the perfection…

— Edgar Allan Poe

Nothing that is not a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency, especially…

— Joseph Addison

A man must either imitate the vicious or hate them.

— Michel de Montaigne

He who flatters a man is his enemy. he who tells him of his faults is his maker.

— Confucius

The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.

— Ben Jonson

There's only one thing worse than a man who doesn't have strong likes and dislikes, and that's a man who has strong likes and…

— Tony Randall