Nature has given men one tongue and two ears, that we may hear twice as much as we speak.

Nature has given man one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear twice as much as we speak

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the views which they take of them

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.

Human nature is so constituted, that all see and judge better in the affairs of other men than in their own