English - Politician | July 18, 1726 - January 10, 1784
Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or no.
George Savile
MomentMenCrimeWillVirtueWhere
There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it.
BusinessThinkReasonBecauseBeen
Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz, by those who make them, by those who execute them, and by those who suffer if they break them.
ThreeSufferBreakLawsUnderstood
No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool.
FoolManWeaknessEnoughPlayWit
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