Human Nature

“There is a complex side to each human being, there is good and bad.”

“The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.”

“I hold entirely with the view that power corrupts, that absolute power corrupts.”

“When things are few and people's hearts are straightforward, complicated teachings are unnecessary.”

“History is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.”

“Ambition and avarice are the leading springs which generally actuate the restless mind.”

“Custom, then, is the great guide of human life.”