Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

I have tried sex with both men and women. I found I liked it.

The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets.

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labor be found, that it should be by almost all men neglected? But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

When men have money and power they get turned on, sexually. They get horny as hell. Can't imagine why, though.

A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.

The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.