Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another but women are by nature enemies.

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.

All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality.

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do.

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.

Forgive, son men are men they needs must err.