There is this paradox in pride it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so

There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.

Men, by associating in large masses, as in camps and cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their minds, but weaken their morals; thus a retrocession in the one, is too often the price they pay for a refinement of the

Most men know what they hate, few know what they love.

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.