Men Quote by Niccolo Machiavelli

Men are so simple of mind, and so much dominated by their immediate needs, that a deceitful man will always find plenty who are…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

The most ingenious men continually pretend to condemn tricking--but this is often done that they may use it more conveniently themselves, when some great…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Men always fool themselves when they give up experience for systems born of the imagination. Man is the work of nature, he exists in…

— Baron d'Holbach

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

— Jacob August Riis

The flesh is willing to flatter itself, and many who now give themselves every indulgence, promise to themselves an easy entrance into life. THus…

— John Calvin

Men are so completely fools by necessity that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly who does not confess his…

— Blaise Pascal

Foolish men attract foolish circumstances.

— Aaliyah Hurley

Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

It is sometimes necessary to play the fool to avoid being deceived by cunning men.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Men are inconsolable concerning the treachery of their friends or the deceptions of their enemies; and yet they are often very highly satisfied to…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Men are so stupid and concerned with their present needs, they will always let themselves be deceived.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

He who uses trickery should at least make use of his judgment to learn that he can scarcely hide treacherous conduct for very long…

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable