Favors Quote by Roger L'Estrange Download Open image “Men indulge those opinions and practices that favor their pretensions.” — Roger L'Estrange ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Favors Indulge Men Opinion Practice Pretension
Men more easily renounce their interests than their tastes. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
When men exercise their reason coolly and freely, on a variety of distinct questions, they inevitably fall into different opinions, on some of them.… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“It is eminently reasonable that men should seek to associate with those who share their convictions and values. It is impossible to deal or even to communicate with men whose ideas are fundamentally opposed to one’s own (and one should be free not to deal with them). All proper associations are formed or joined by individual choice and on conscious,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share
The principles which men profess on any controverted subject are usually a very incomplete exponent of the opinions they really hold. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Men commonly think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and imbibed opinions, but generally act according to custom — Francis Bacon Sr Copy Share Image
There is nothing on which men are commonly more intent than on making a way for their opinions. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The morals of men are more governed by their pursuits than by their opinions. A type of virtue is first formed by circumstances, and… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
Men do not want solely the obedience of women, they want their sentiments. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
What divides men is less a difference in ideas than a likeness in pretensions. — Pierre-Jean de Beranger Copy Share Image
He that would live clear of envy must lay his finger on his mouth, and keep his hand out of the ink-pot. — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
Humor is the offspring of man; it comes forth like Minerva, fully armed from the brain. — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
Some people are all quality; you would think they are made up of nothing but title and genealogy. The stamp of dignity defaces in… — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
It is one of the vexatious mortifications of a studious man to have his thoughts disordered by a tedious visit. — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
Figure-flingers and star-gazers pretend to foretell the fortunes of kingdoms, and have no foresight in what concerns themselves. — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
We never think of the main business of life till a vain repentance minds us of it at the wrong end. — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
He that serves God for money will serve the Devil for better wages. — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
Nothing is so fierce but love will soften; nothing so sharp-sighted in other matters but it will throw a mist before its eyes. — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
Unruly ambition is deaf, not only to the advice of friends, but to the counsels and monitions of reason itself. — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
There is no contending with necessity, and we should be very tender how we censure those that submit to it. It is one thing… — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
It must be assumed and established as a principle, that the right of private property must be regarded as sacred. Wherefore, the law ought… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
Get rid of the idea that God wants you to sacrifice yourself for others, and that you can secure his favor by doing so;… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
A free society depends upon a high degree of mutual trust. The public will not give that trust to officials who are not seen… — Archibald Cox Copy Share Image
God has often given His people favor in the sight of heathen masters (as Joseph and Daniel), and has magnified the sufficiency of His… — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
About one-half of the members of Congress are seekers for office at the nomination of the President. Of the remainder, at least one-half have… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
We are thankful for good-will rather than for services, for the motive than the quantum of favor received. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Lobbying' is the activity of attempting to influence legislation by privately influencing the legislators. It is the result and creation of a mixed economy-of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It is not difficult to rebuild a life. All we need is to be aware that we have the same strength we had before,… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Through learning we grow, becoming more than we were before, and in that sense learning is unselfish, because it results in the transformation of… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
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