QUOTES ABOUT HUMAN NATURE
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"I often marvel that while each man loves himself more than anyone else, he sets less value on his own estimate than on the opinions of others."

[Marcus Aurelius] | [1.15] | from Meditations


"As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men’s minds more seriously than what they see."

[Julius Caesar] | [1.15] | from Gallic Wars


"Striving to better, oft we mar what's well."

[Shakespeare] | [1.19] | King Lear, I.iv.226


"Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority."

[Lord Acton] | from a letter to Mandell Creighton dated April 5, 1887


"He who praises you for what you lack wishes to take from you what you have."

[Don Juan Manuel] | [1.18]


"Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny."

[Plutarch] | [1.24] | from Lives