Courses Quote by Niccolo Machiavelli

In everything the middle course is best: all things in excess bring trouble to men.

— Titus Maccius Plautus

It is safer to do most men harm than to do them too much good.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

— Giacomo Leopardi

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 as a rule are more preoccupied with the dangers that threaten their life than interested in the biological forces on which they…

— Rene Dubos

If I cannot get men who steer a middle course to associate with, I would far rather have the impetuous and hasty. For the…

— Confucius

Ll men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

— John Locke

Nothing indicates the soundness of a man's judgment so much as knowing how to choose between two disadvantages.

— Jean Francois Paul de Gondi

Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of men is greatly perplexed.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Men are good in but one way, but bad in many.

— Aristotle

Men and the world are mutually toxic to each other.

— Philip K. Dick

Men are not narrow in their intellectual interests by nature; it takes special and rigorous training to accomplish that end.

— Jacob Viner