Man acts from adequate motives relative to his interest, and not on metaphysical speculations.
Edmund BurkeThere are cases in which a man would be ashamed not to have been imposed upon. There is a confidence necessary to human intercourse, and without which men are often more injured by their own suspicions than they would be by the perfidy of others.
Edmund BurkeGreater mischief happens often from folly, meanness, and vanity than from the greater sins of avarice and ambition.
Edmund BurkeBetter to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security.
Edmund Burke