To a superior race of beings the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem equally ridiculous.


No. 191. - Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)

William Hazlitt Quotes

To a superior race of beings the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem equally ridiculous.

To a superior race of beings the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem equally ridiculous.

To a superior race of beings the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem equally ridiculous.

To a superior race of beings the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem equally ridiculous.