Done Quote by Matthew Henry

It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do.

— Richard Whately

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

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

— Jacob August Riis

When men receive favours from someone they expected to do them ill, they are under a greater obligation to their benefactor...

— Niccolo Machiavelli

It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.

— John Stuart Mill

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

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

Men... are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations.

— Frederick William Robertson

Few men know all the ill they do.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement,…

— Samuel Smiles

men are undoubtedly more in danger from prosperity than from adversity. for when matters go smoothly, they flatter themselves, and are intoxicated by their…

— John Calvin

Men think to mend their condition by a change of circumstances. They might as well hope to escape from their shadows.

— James Anthony Froude