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Quote DB :: Authors :: Samuel Johnson :: View Quote View Quote "The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good." - Copy to Clipboard   --  Samuel Johnson Listed in: Morality Add Quote To Your Quote List   Rating: 4.86  Rate Quote 37 votes submitted Your Name: Friend's Email: Sponsored Links Top 5 quotes from Samuel Johnson "A second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience." "A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself." "Sex: the expense is damnable, the position is ridiculous, and the pleasure fleeting." "Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment." "Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it." Top 5 quotes from Morality "Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness." "If we do not help a man in trouble, it is as if we caused the trouble." "Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience." "Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking." "I never believed there was one code of morality for a public and another for a private man."

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