"We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather."

Marquis De Vauvenargues, French Philosopher

Mankind, Weather

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"We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather."

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"Mankind is made great or little by its own will."

Friedrich Schiller, German Dramatist

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"Mankind is considered (by the radical environmentalists) the lowest and the meanest of all species and is blamed for everything."

Dixie Lee Ray, American Politician

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"Sickness is mankind's greatest defect."

Georg C. Lichtenberg, German Physicist

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"Mankind, in all his lusts, punishes himself. The gods have to do very little."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

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"To govern mankind, one must not overrate them."

Lord Chesterfield, British Statesman

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"To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind."

H. P. Lovecraft, American Novelist

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"According to the now almost universally accepted theory, all the races of mankind had a common origin."

Ellsworth Huntington, American Educator

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"Christendom appears clearly to me to be one of those trifling, insignificant arts, which has never been of any substantial advantage to mankind."

Edward Hicks, American Artist

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"A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources."

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"The idle always have a mind to do something."

Mind

"One promises much, to avoid giving little."

Giving

"When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected."

Thought

"Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something."

People

"Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself."

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"There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do."

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"Mankind is made great or little by its own will."

"Mankind is considered (by the radical environmentalists) the lowest and the meanest of all species and is blamed for everything."

"Sickness is mankind's greatest defect."

"Mankind, in all his lusts, punishes himself. The gods have to do very little."

"To govern mankind, one must not overrate them."

"To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed."

"The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind."

"According to the now almost universally accepted theory, all the races of mankind had a common origin."

"Christendom appears clearly to me to be one of those trifling, insignificant arts, which has never been of any substantial advantage to mankind."

"A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners."

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"Vice stirs up war, virtue fights."

"You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time."

"Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good."

"The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources."

"The idle always have a mind to do something."

"One promises much, to avoid giving little."

"When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected."

"Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something."

"Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself."

"There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do."