Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it.
It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.
It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do.
Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies' resources, and minimized their own.
Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.
Until women are as ambitious as men, they're not gong to achieve as much as men.
Each man has his own desires; all do not possess the same inclinations.
Men who do not contend in earnest can have little warmth and fervor in what they undertake, and are more than half prepared to betray the cause, in the vindication of which they have engaged their services.
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.