Age of reason Quote by Thomas Paine

“Tom Paine wrote in The Age of Reason: Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what…

— Carl Sagan

“The tendency of a person to allow himself to be degraded, robbed, deceived, and exploited might be the diffidence of a God among men.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten up by vice that…

— William Booth

“Though he was inquiring into himself as closely as he could, he never even told himself that he had been dishonest. Fraud and dishonesty…

— Anthony Trollope

“A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and…

— Dave Donovan

Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into…

— Jean Cocteau

“People often say that, by pointing out to a man the faults of his mistress, you succeed only in strengthening his atachment to her,…

— Marcel Proust

“Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds; and until we know what has been or will be the peculiar combination…

— Marian Evans

A man who is always ready to believe what is told him will never do well, especially a businessman.

— Petronius

“by iniquity and will relentlessly pressure his flesh. As a result, he will eventually spiral down into a life of lies, adultery or cyber…

— Ana Mendez Ferrell

He who gives himself to a lover because he is a good man, and in the hope that he will be improved by his…

— Plato

“Nor when love is of this disinterested sort is there any disgrace in being deceived, but in every other case there is equal disgrace…

— Plato