To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue. (William Hazlitt)

To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

William Hazlitt

Related topics

ill perhaps virtue wisdom wish

Related quotes

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. View quote
Aristotle
Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself. View quote
Blaise Pascal
A man has generally the good or ill qualities, which he attributes to mankind. View quote
William Shenstone
To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous. View quote
William Hazlitt
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together. View quote
Edmund Burke