Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
NAPOLéON BONAPARTE I once read that there are more biographical works about Napoleon Bonaparte than any other man in hi...
MICHAEL DIRDA Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE To a philosophic eye, the vices of the clergy are far less dangerous than their virtues.
EDWARD GIBBON No company is far preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their...
COLTON No company is preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their vir...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
SAMUEL ADAMS Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
SAMUEL ADAMS We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
DENIS DIDEROT We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates
DENIS DIDEROT Napoleon Paintings & Chalcography from the Palace of Versailles (1800-1804, From Bonaparte to Napole...
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE If individuals have no vices, their virtues may be of use to us.
JUNIUS What is history but a fable agreed upon?
BERNARD LE BOVIER DE FONTENELLE Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices
RALPH WALDO EMERSON No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disea...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Through their passion for men, through their mutable temper, through their natural heartlessness, th...
GURU NANAK Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.
SOURCE UNKNOWN The superstitious know how to reproach people for their vices better than they know how to teach the...
BARUCH SPINOZA Changing prejudice often inverts the value of words while preserving most of their sense; virtues ar...
JOHN SHEARMAN History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the...
DAN BROWN Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!
CHARLES DICKENS Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.
JUVENAL On Love - Men love women for their virtues. Women love men in spite of their flaws.
MARSHA HINDS I cannot," said he, "expect everyone to have my virtues. It's good enough to meet with my vices...
ANDRé GIDE I like actors that are good with pantomime and that can transmit a lot by their presence and attitud...
GUILLERMO DEL TORO Our virtues are most frequently but vices in disguise.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
PLUTARCH Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known than their crimes
LORD CHESTERFIELD A man treats his own faults as original sin and supposes them scattered everywhere with the seed of ...
G.K. CHESTERTON All men are great for they convey something through their deeds and while most of them do from their...
RAMANA PEMMARAJU Mum once told Dad that vices are only vices when looked at through the frame of society.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Vices are their own punishment
AESOP Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI Divorced men are more likely to meet their car payments than their child support obligations.
SUSAN FALUDI Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues.
KAHLIL GIBRAN The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD If we resist our passions, it is more through their weakness than from our strength.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The modern world is not evil; in some ways the modern world is far too good. It is full of wild and ...
G.K. CHESTERTON Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than...
BARUCH SPINOZA Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than...
BARUCH (_BENEDICT DE) SPINOZA Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than...
BARUCH SPINOZA It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are gov...
WALTER BAGEHOT More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.
BILLY SUNDAY Luxury and dissipation, soft and gentle as their approaches are,
and silently as they throw their s...
HANNAH MORE The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.
SAM MENDES There is an obsession in the Church with sin management. People think more about their sins than abo...
JOHN PAUL WARREN Conquer your vices. Exploit your virtues. Release your vices. Embrace your higher self.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.
WILLIAM PENN Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children
WILLIAM PENN Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.
SIDNEY LANIER Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their l...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their ...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We are more often treacherous, through weakness than through calculation.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We are more often treacherous, through weakness than through calculation.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We should remember that there are nations which meet more than 30 to 60% of their power requirements...
A. P. J. ABDUL KALAM Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money.
ROBERT H. JACKSON Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money.
ROBERT JACKSON My brother and I were able to fantasize far more extravagantly about our parents' tastes and desires...
ANNE FADIMAN The instructions are too boring to go through, and I believe it's more practical to be familiar with...
ZHANG LI An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtu...
WALTER BAGEHOT Many men are more faithful to their golf partners than to their wives and have stuck with them longe...
JOHN UPDIKE I laugh at people who think their spontaneous, yet plan their spontaneous moments.
SONYA.E.WILLIAMS Words can change their meaning, just by repeating them.
DEYTH BANGER To be poetic is how u get somebody as a girl around you...
"Dexter: You seem uncertain. I...
DEYTH BANGER For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure --tangible material prosperity in this world --is the...
SAMUEL BUTLER People either build a castle or a dungeon. The former by their virtues, pull people into positive ed...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Search others for virtues, thyself for thy vices.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Ninety percent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their f...
SYDNEY J. HARRIS No writer besides Shakespeare has created more memorable characters attached to vices and virtues. I...
ROGER ROSENBLATT There is a certain class of people who prefer to say that their fathers came down in the world throu...
W. WINWOOD READE It's Shakespeare, to have a single family in which human flaws and virtues are on such vivid display...
JON MEACHAM Their feet through faithless leather met the dirt,
And oftener chang'd their principles than shirt...
EDWARD YOUNG Men as a whole judge more with their eyes than with their hands.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Napoleon, whe...
PIERRE-SIMON LAPLACE Great abilities produce great vices as well as virtues.
GREEK PROVERB Folks who have no vices have plaguey few virtues.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.
RICHARD WHATELY Summerhill children are allowed to go through their gangster period, and consequentially more furnit...
A.S. NEILL Europeans are forever the offspring of Machiavelli, trapped in a historical rollercoaster that can b...
LORETTA NAPOLEONI Because they breathe more times per minute than adults, they are more susceptible to biological or c...
CHRIS DODD Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.
GEORGE FARQUHAR Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards
GEORGE FARQUHAR It takes a lot to open up and love. I think women find their divinity through their disappointment i...
LAURA BUSHNELL Transient bodies are only subject to destruction through their substance and not through their form,...
MAIMONIDES The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
RENE DESCARTES In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and ...
JOHN STEINBECK I think men are lost right now. They don't know what their role is. Women have had power through the...
LAURA BUSHNELL Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they...
EDWARD ABBEY The gods of men are sillier than their kings and queens, and emptier and more powerless
MAXWELL ANDERSON If the children are untaught, their ignorance and vices will in future life cost us much dearer in t...
THOMAS JEFFERSON It’s through challenges that winners’ thoughts are invoked. Through challenges, winners are insp...
KEVIN ABDULRAHMAN The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must ca...
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