Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Wise is the man who does not disdain any character and instead, examining him with a searching look, plumbs him to the very main-springs of his being.
The man who never makes a mistake always takes orders from one who does. No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies.
Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.
The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them.
A man must fortify himself and understand that a wise man who yields to laziness or anger or passion or love of drink, or who commits any other action prompted by impulse and inopportune, will probably find his fault condoned; but if he stoops to greed, he will not be pardoned, but render himself odious as a combination of all vices at once.
The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with.
It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.
Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things.
The essence of a man is found in his faults.
Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.