When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.
Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.
Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.
A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.
There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life their Christianity, for instance.
Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.
Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.
Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.
In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.