human nature Quotes

All men desire by nature to know.

Mothers love their children more than fathers because they are more certain the children are truly theirs.

Nature of man is not what he was born as, but what he is born for.

The same ideas, one must believe, recur in men's minds not once or twice but again and again.

Men are divided between those who are as thrifty as if they would live forever, and those who are as extravagant as if they were going to die the next day.

Thus every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite.

The character which results from wealth is that of a prosperous fool.

The young are heated by Nature as drunken men by wine.

Why do men seek honour? Surely in order to confirm the favorable opinion they have formed of themselves.

. .we would have to say that hereditary succession is harmful. You may say the king, having sovereign power, will not in that case hand over to his children. But it is hard to believe that: it is a difficult... ...