Human nature Quotes

"Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth." "Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them" "People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone" "Our nature is obscured by our ideas. We are infinitely rich, yet we keep looking at a room full of coins to measure our wealth" "There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root" "Human beings are the only animals who have to work" "Many people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so" "A man must be a little mad if he does not want to be even more so." "There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life." "The whole world changes, but not you." "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws" "Only the dead have seen the end of war " "I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake." "Man serves the interests of no creature except himself." "Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness"