It is a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.
There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.
He who cheats others is a knave, but he who cheats himself is a fool.
To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all.
It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.
It is the knowledge that all men have weaknesses and that many have vices that makes government necessary.
In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
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