Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It is a true man's part not to err, but it is also noble of a man to perceive his error.
Inconsistencies in men are generally testimony to their immaturity.
No consensus of men can make an error erroneous. We can only find or commit an error, not create it. When we commit an error, we say what was an error already.
Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.
The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable lapses.
Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.
Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
Men tend to try to struggle to be more rational and reduce things to simplicity more and are more impatient with ambiguity than women are.
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