A Quote by Voltaire

Men are in general so tricky, so envious, and so cruel that when we find one who is only weak, we are too happy.

Voltaire

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Voltaire
French - Writer
November 21, 1694 - May 30, 1778

I find historical figures in general very tricky because you feel at times that you're serving two masters. Not only the arc and wonderful writing that comes with the show, but also the history of a person's life.

Vincent Piazza

There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors. But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity.

Claude Adrien Helvetius

There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors... But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity.

Claude Adrien Helvetius

Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.

Leo Buscaglia

Great men cultivate love and only little men cherish a spirit of hatred; assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak.

Booker T. Washington

I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.

Leo Rosten

Men only go for skinny women because they're too weak to argue - and salads are cheap.

Frank Carson

I was too weak to walk. At least, I thought I was too weak. But in truth, I was too weak to try.

Jay Asher

Only weak men want women to be weak.

Anne Fortier

Cruel men believe in a cruel god and use their belief to excuse their cruelty. Only kindly men believe in a kindly god, and they would be kindly in any case.

Bertrand Russell

Certainly great persons had need to borrow other men's opinions to think themselves happy; for if they judge by their own feeling, they cannot find it: but if they think with themselves what other men think of them, and that other men would fain be as they are, then they are happy as it were by report, when, perhaps, they find the contrary within.

John Locke

Do you think... that men have always massacred each other, as they do today? Have they always been liars, cheats, traitors, brigands, weak, flighty, cowardly, envious, gluttonous, drunken, grasping, and vicious, bloody, backbiting, debauched, fanatical, hypocritical, and silly?

Voltaire

I want him to be happy. And I want you to be happy, too. Even if you can only find that happiness without me.

S.J. Watson

But Peter had seen too much, knew too well that men-kind didn't need an excuse to be cruel and murder one another.

Brom

We have to realize that treating animals well is in our best interests, too. Cruelty is indivisible; when you are cruel to an animal, you are training yourself to be cruel to people, too (and vice versa).

Jonathan Balcombe

I find that many men and women are troubled by the thought that they are too small and inconsequential in the scheme of things. But that is not our real trouble - we are actually too big and too complex, for God made us in His image and we are too big to be satisfied with what the world offers us!.. Man is bored, because he is too big to be happy with that which sin is giving him. God has made him too great, his potential is too mighty.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

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