Quote #80
Man is not a rational animal. He is only truly good or great when he acts from passion.
More from Benjamin Disraeli
- Nature has given us two ears but only one mouth.
- Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
- The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
- The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
- What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens.
- The microcosm of a public school.
- Debt is the prolific mother of folly and of crime.
- The Services in war time are fit only for desperadoes but, in peace, are fit only for fools.