Most of this world's misery is the fruit not as priests tell us of wickedness, but of stupidity....
And we know that of all stupidities he considered anger the most deplorable.
To do what you imply would require nothing short of divine intervention. you must change man, not systems. Can you and our vapouring friends of the Literary Chamber of Rennes, or any other learned society of France, devise a system of government that has never yet been tried? Surely not. And can we say of any system tried that it proved other than failure in the end? My dear Philippe, the future is to be read with certainty only in the past. Ad actu ad posse valet consecutio. Man never changes. He is always greedy, always acquisitive, always vile. I am speaking of Man in the bulk.
Rafael SabatiniTags: human-nature government greed
With you it is always the law, never equity.
Rafael SabatiniBut he looks no more than thirty. He's very handsome-- so much you will admit; nor will you deny that he is very wealthy and very powerful; the greatest nobleman in Brittany. He will make me a great lady.'
'God made you that, Aline.
Do you know, André, I sometimes think that you have no heart.'
'Presumably because I sometimes betray intelligence.
Tags: intelligence heart
...it is human nature, I suppose, to be futile and ridiculous.
Rafael SabatiniYou often show yourself without any faculty of deductive reasoning.
Rafael SabatiniI hope no man will call me timorous; and yet I'ld as soon be called that as rash.
Rafael SabatiniI regret,' said he, 'that I have no cup; but, as you see, I can practise phlebotomy with a bottle.
Rafael SabatiniOnly he who is without anything is without enemies.
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