There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.

Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

Men blaspheme what they do not know.

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

Men often take their imagination for their heart and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.