It’s always the most ridiculous people who are the first to slander others.[Ceux de qui la conduite offre le plus à rire Sont toujours sur autrui les premiers à médire.]
It was wise to beware of people who were not telling the truth.
It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.
It is such a happiness when good people get together – and they always do.
It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones.
It is fatal to look hungry. It makes people want to kick you.
It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.[C’est une étrange entreprise que celle de faire rire les honnêtes gens.]
In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
In the darkest days, the Lord puts the best people into your life.
In the age in which we live, people give nothing for nothing.[Car, dans le siécle ou nous sommes, On ne donne rien pour rien.]
