
“A man has generally the good or ill qualities which he attributes to mankind.”
Essays on Men and Manners (1804)
Sir Marmaduke's Musings, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“A man has generally the good or ill qualities which he attributes to mankind.”
Essays on Men and Manners (1804)
“310. Keep not ill men company, lest you increase the number.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“Nature inclines to ill, through all her range,
And use is second nature, hard to change.”
Natura inchina al male, e viene a farsi
L'abito poi difficile a mutarsi.
Canto XXXVI, stanza 1 (tr. W. S. Rose)
Orlando Furioso (1532)
“Let good or ill befall,
It must be good for me,—
Secure of having Thee in all,
Of having all in Thee.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 594.
This was what was frightening.
Source: The moon and the bonfire (1950), Chapter III, p. 22
The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)