Man has free choice, or otherwise counsels, exhortations, commands, prohibitions, rewards and punishments would be in vain.

Everything is valuable under the right conditions. To a man dying of thirst, water be more precious than gold. To a drowning man, water be of little worth and great trouble.

We can make war so terrible and make them so sick of war that generations pass away before they again appeal to it.

The most desirable state of mankind is that which maintains general security with the smallest encroachment upon individual independence.

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.

Her husband had archaic ideas about jewels; a man bought them for his wife in acknowledgement of things he could not gracefully utter.

Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed.

A man with a machine and inadequate culture is a pestilence.

An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.

The lion sleeps in the sun. its nose on its paws. it can kill a man.

Man is an eternal sophomore.

They said"You have a blue guitar You do not play things as they are". The man replied,"things as they are Are changed upon the blue guitar".

Pascal told only half the story. He said man was a thinking reed. What man is, is a thinking reed and a walking genital.

I'm never satisfied, man. I'm Virgo. We overanalyze and we're never satisfied. So I'm gonna keep going 'til the wheels fall off.

Let a man sow a field or plant a farm never so well, yet he cannot foretell who will gather in the fruits; another may build him a house of fairest proportion, yet he knows not who will inhabit it.

...men unite against none so readily as against those whom they see attempting to rule over them.

Men all pay homage to what understanding understands, but no one understands enough to rely upon what understanding does not understand and thereby come to understand.

The man who has forgotten self may be said to have entered Heaven.

Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.

I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Men are but men, and the greatest men are they who soonest learn the simpler things.

Man is still an ape in that he forgets what is not ever before his eyes.

One man's bane is another's bliss.