He that accuses all mankind of corruption ought to remember that he is sure to convict only one.

Edmund Burke
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  1. I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  2. Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive. - Dalai Lama Xiv

  3. Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. - Albert Camus

  4. The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What's left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars. - Bertolt Brecht

  5. All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.... - William Shakespeare

More Quotes By Edmund Burke
  1. Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

  2. But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. Those who know what virtuous liberty is, cannot bear to see it disgraced by incapable heads, on...

  3. Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods." (1794)]

  4. Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

  5. Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.

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