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“Mankind has always made too much of its saints and heroes, and how the latter handle the fuss might be called their final test.”

Made Might Too Much Mankind Hero Tests Finals Saint Handle Latter

Author:Wilfrid Sheed

“Mankind are so ready to bestow their admiration on the dead, because the latter do not hear it, or because it gives no pleasure to the objects of it. Even fame is the offspring of envy.”

Giving Pleasure Mankind Objects Ready Fame Envy Latter Admiration Offspring

Book:Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“Both love of mankind, and respect for their rights are duties; the former however is only a conditional, the latter an unconditional, purely imperative duty, which he must be perfectly certain not to have transgressed who would give himself up to the secret emotions arising from benevolence.”

Giving Certain Secret Emotion Rights Mankind Duty Former Latter Unconditional Imperatives Benevolence Conditional

Author:Immanuel Kant

“Most of the trades, professions, and ways of living among mankind, take their original either from the love of the pleasure, or the fear of want. The former, when it becomes too violent, degenerates into luxury, and the latter into avarice.”

Way Want Work Pleasure Mankind Originals Trade Profession Violent Luxury Former Latter Avarice Degenerates

Book:The spectator

Source: The spectator

“Men to be men must be able to trust their womenfolk, even as the latter are compelled to trust them.”

Men Able Mankind Latter Compelled Be A Man

Book:Gandhi on Women: Collection of Mahatma Gandhi's Writings and Speeches on Women

Source: Gandhi on Women: Collection of Mahatma Gandhi's Writings and Speeches on Women

“Words may be either the servants or masters. If the former they may safely guide us in the way of truth. If the latter they intoxicate the brain and lead into swamps of thought where there is no solid footing. Among the sources of those innumerable calamities which from age to age have overwhelmed mankind, may be reckoned as one of the principal, the abuse of words.”

Ifs Way May Age Brain Mankind Masters Source Abuse Guides Former Servant Latter Principal Overwhelmed Calamity Swamps

Author:George Horne