Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907), The Golden Sayings of Democritus
“There are few people who are more often wrong than those who cannot suffer being wrong.”
Il n'y a point de gens qui aient plus souvent tort que ceux qui ne peuvent souffrir d'en avoir.
Maxim 386.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
New York Times, 2001 http://www.animalrights.net/quotes.html http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/jamieson/233771_robert23.html.
2001
“The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.”
“The hope of all who suffer,
The dread of all who wrong.”
The Mantle of St. John de Matha, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“A man who is certain he is right is almost sure to be wrong.”
Aphorism 44
Les Caractères (1688), Du mérite personnel
Context: That man is good who does good to others; if he suffers on account of the good he does, he is very good; if he suffers at the hands of those to whom he has done good, then his goodness is so great that it could be enhanced only by greater sufferings; and if he should die at their hands, his virtue can go no further: it is heroic, it is perfect.
