Trusted/philosophy

Famous quotes containing the words trusted and/or philosophy:

“Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.”
—Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)

“While you’re playing cards with a regular guy or having a bite to eat with him, he seems a peaceable, good-humoured and not entirely dense person. But just begin a conversation with him about something inedible, politics or science, for instance, and he ends up in a deadend or starts in on such an obtuse and base philosophy that you can only wave your hand and leave.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)