human nature Quotes

We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence. But they hesitate, waiting for the other fellow to make the first move-and he, in turn, waits for you.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

It seems that ambition makes most people wish to be loved rather than to love others.

We are convinced by a speaker's good character when their speech makes us trust them. We believe good people more easily and completely than others, especially when there's no definite answer and opinions are split.

A common danger unites even the bitterest enemies.

Philosophy can make people sick.

Wicked men obey for fear, but the good for love.

There are three things that are the motives of choice and three that are the motives of avoidance; namely, the noble, the expedient, and the pleasant, and their opposites, the base, the harmful, and the painful. Now in respect of... ...

The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.

The avarice of mankind is insatiable.