Envying another man's happiness is madness; you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.

Man: The most complex of beings, and thus the most dependent of beings. On all that made you up, you depend.

Man's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases.

A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned

The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.

The finest virtues can become deformed with age. The precise mind becomes finicky; the thrifty man, miserly; the cautious man, timorous; the man of imagination, fanciful. Even perseverance ends up in a sort of stupidity. Just as, on the other hand, being too willing to understand too many opinions, too diverse ways of seeing, constancy is lost and the mind goes astray in a restless fickleness.

The individual man tries to escape the race. And as soon as he ceases to represent the race, he represents man.

It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.

The wise man is he who constantly wonders afresh.