"Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing." ― Ralph Waldo Emerson Topic(s): Men Tags: astonishes, nothing More From Ralph Waldo Emerson "There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly." "A great man is always willing to be little." "Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons." More In Men "Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men."― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable."― Voltaire "If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject."― Ayn Rand