Ashamed Quote by Thucydides

For the task assigned them Men aren't smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.

— Bertolt Brecht

Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known, than their crimes; and, if you hint to a man that…

— Lord Chesterfield

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

Clever men are impressed in their differences from their fellows. Wise men are conscious of their resemblance to them.

— R. H. Tawney

There is nothing by which men display their character so much as in what they consider ridiculous... Fools and sensible men are equally innocuous.…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Those who are clever in imagination are far more pleased with themselves than prudent men could reasonably be.

— Blaise Pascal

Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else unless it is an enemy.

— Albert Einstein

When rogues fall out, honest men get into their own.

— Matthew Hale

Men are as we have always known them, neither better nor worse from the hearts of rogues there springs a latent honesty, from the…

— Federica Montseny

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

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.

— Anonymous

Cunning is only the mimic of discretion, and may pass upon weak men in the same manner as vivacity is often mistaken for wit,…

— Joseph Addison