Man Quote by Thomas Becket

To be an object of hatred and aversion to their contemporaries has been the usual fate of all those whose merit has raised them…

— Thucydides

The vain man makes a merit of misfortune, and triumphs in his disgrace.

— William Hazlitt

Plutarch has written an essay on the benefits which a man may receive from his enemies; and among the good fruits of enmity, mentions…

— Joseph Addison

“That punishment, the public punishment of disgrace, should in a just measure attend his share of the offence is, we know, not one of…

— Jane Austen

All the persecutors declare against each other mortal war, while the philosopher, oppressed by them all, contents himself with pitying them.

— Voltaire

A sincere acquaintance with ourselves teaches us humility; and from humility springs that benevolence which compassionates the transgressors we condemn, and prevents the punishments…

— Jane Porter

“Favour and disgrace would seem equally to be feared; honour and great calamity, to be regarded as personal conditions (of the same kind).”

— Lao Tzu

“Probity, sincerity, candor, conviction, the idea of duty, are things that, when in error, can turn hideous, but – even though hideous – remain…

— Victor Hugo

“Society takes upon itself the right to inflict appalling punishment on the individual, but it also has the supreme vice of shallowness, and fails…

— Oscar Wilde

Whoever imposes severe punishment becomes repulsive to the people; while he who awards mild punishment becomes contemptible. But whoever imposes punishment as deserved becomes…

— Chanakya

He who strays from the customary becomes a sacrifice to the extraordinary; he who keeps to the customary becomes its slave. He iscondemned to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“He asked himself whether human society could have the right to force its members to suffer equally in one case for its own unreasonable…

— Victor Hugo