“The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses.”

— Alexander Hamilton

Essay (12 August 1795)

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Alexander Hamilton 106

Founding Father of the United States 1757–1804

Aaron Hill (writer) (1685–1750) British writer

Don Alvarez in Act IV, Scene 1.
Alzira: A Tragedy (1736)
Context: Youth is ever apt to judge in haste,
And lose the medium in the wild extreme,
Do not repent, but regulate your passion:
Though love is reason, its excess is rage.
Give me, at least, your promise to reflect,
In cool, impartial solitude, and still.
No last decision till we meet again.

“Men are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive.”

William Congreve The Old Bachelor

Act IV, scene xi
The Old Bachelor (1693)

“3387. Men apt to promise, are apt to forget.”

Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual

Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)

“Such excess of passion
is quite out of fashion”

Edward Gorey (1925–2000) American writer, artist, and illustrator

Source: Amphigorey

“Weak men are apt to be cruel.”

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax (1633–1695) English politician

http://books.google.com/books?id=K6lsEtMo1KMC&q=%22Weak+men+are+apt+to+be+cruel%22&pg=PA128#v=onepage
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Moral Thoughts and Reflections