6 Jonathan Swift Quotes on Human nature

Jonathan Swift quotes on human nature

9. There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake, though all the World sees them to be in downright nonsense.

12. We are so fond of one another, because our ailments are the same.

16. 'Tis an old maxim in the schools, That flattery's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit.

41. Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old.

45. The Stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.

55. I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.