Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Men are never so good or so bad as their opinions.
Good and bad men are less than they seem.
A man is not good or bad for one action.
A man is always better than he thinks.
In order to act, you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.
Bad behaviour makes men more glamorous. Women get destroyed, thrown out of society and locked up in institutions.
To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.
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