“Every man loves what he is good at.”
Act V, sc. i.
The True Widow (1679)
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English poet and playwright 1642–1692Related quotes
“If you would give every man as he deserves, then love the good and pity those who are evil.”
Vis aptam meritis uicem referre:
Dilige iure bonos et miseresce malis.
Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (480) philosopher of the early 6th century
Poem IV, lines 11-12; translation by Richard H. Green
The Consolation of Philosophy · De Consolatione Philosophiae, Book IV
“Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.”
Voltaire (1694–1778) French writer, historian, and philosopher
“He who has a good woman's love is ashamed of every ill deed.”
Walther von der Vogelweide (1170–1230) Middle High German lyric poet
Swer guotes wîbes minne hât,
der schamt sich aller missetât.
"Waz sol ein man, der niht engert", line 11; translation from Henry John Chaytor The Troubadours (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1912) p. 128.
“Not every man is so great a coward as he thinks he is — nor yet so good a Christian.”
Robert Louis Stevenson book The Master of Ballantrae
The Master of Ballantrae. Mr. Mackellar's Journey (1889).
“And it's the hope of hopes, it's the love of loves
It's the heart of every man
(Every man).”
Julie Gold (1956) American musician
From a Distance (1985)
Context: From a distance there is harmony
And it echoes through the land
And it's the hope of hopes, it's the love of loves
It's the heart of every man
(Every man). It's the hope of hopes, it's the love of loves
This is the song of every man.
“Man loves what is small; and he loves what is big, through the same weakness.”
Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist and essayist
