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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests.
In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another.
Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences.
The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.
Men are only as loyal as their options.
Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent.
Men lose all the material things they leave behind them in this world, but they carry with them the reward of their charity and the alms they give. For these, they will receive from the Lord the reward and recompense they deserve.
Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
Men are as we have always known them, neither better nor worse from the hearts of rogues there springs a latent honesty, from the depths of honest men there emerges a brutish appetite - a thirst for extermination, a desire for blood.
Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.