"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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"If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures."

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"The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind."

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

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"Our true nationality is mankind."

H. G. Wells, English Author

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"It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all."

George Gissing, British Novelist

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Bob Geldof, Irish Actor

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"An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind."

Walter Bagehot, English Author

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"If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures."

"The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind."

"I think I did every drug known to mankind, smoked crack, boozed, dropped acid, you name it."

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

"All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind."

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

"Our true nationality is mankind."

"It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all."

"Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best."

"An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind."

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"The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success."

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

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