People Quotes

There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.

People are always angry at anyone who chooses very individual standards for his life; because of the extraordinary treatment which that man grants to himself, they feel degraded, like ordinary beings.

People who live in an age of corruption are witty and slanderous; they know that there are other kinds of murder than by dagger or assault; they also know that whatever is well said is believed.

Most people are far too much occupied with themselves to be malicious.

Some people appear to be more meager in talent than they are, just because the tasks they set themselves are always too great.

Clever people are never credited with their follies: what a deprivation of human rights!

The people we keep standing in the anteroom of our favor either start fermenting or turn sour.

We must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from the earliest youth; if education or chance give us no opportunity to practice these feelings, our soul becomes dry and unsuited even to understanding the tender inventions of loving people.

Sometimes all you need to do to win clever people over to a principle is to present it in the form of a shocking paradox.

But he who is hated by the people, as the wolf by the dogs - is the free spirit, the enemy of fetters, the non-adorer, the dweller in the woods.

Books for general reading always smell bad; the odor of common people hangs around them.

The busiest people harbor the greatest weariness, their restlessness is weakness-they no longer have the capacity for waiting and idleness.

There will be but few people who, when at a loss for topics of conversation, will not reveal the more secret affairs of their friends.

One must renounce the bad taste of wishing to agree with many people.

The value of many men and books rests solely on their faculty for compelling all to seek out the most hidden and intimate things.

The governments of the great States have two instruments for keeping the people dependent, in fear and obedience: a coarser, the army; and a more refined, the school.

He who wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue; then others can imitate and, at the same time, rise above the one being imitated - something which people love.

This sign I give you: every people speaks its tongue of good and evil, which the neighbor does not understand. It has invented its own language of customs and rights.

The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.

It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.