Zitat des Tages über Bube / Knave:
Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.
Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools.
There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
He who cheats others is a knave, but he who cheats himself is a fool.
We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts.
It is a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
Conspiracies, since they cannot be engaged in without the fellowship of others, are for that reason most perilous; for as most men are either fools or knaves, we run excessive risk in making such folk our companions.
Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.
The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.
In the mass of mankind, I fear, there is too great a majority of fools and knaves; who, singly from their number, must to a certain degree be respected, though they are by no means respectable.
Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.
