A learned man is not learned in all things; but a sufficient man is sufficient throughout, even to ignorance itself.

It is setting a high value upon our opinions to roast men and women alive on account of them.

A man should ever be ready booted to take his journey.

A man must keep a little back shop where he can be himself without reserve. In solitude alone can he know true freedom.

L'homme est bien insensé. Il ne saurait forger un ciron, et forge des Dieux à douzaines. Man is certainly crazy. He could not make a mite, and he makes gods by the dozen.

I look upon the too good opinion that man has of himself, as the nursing mother of all false opinions, both public and private.

Man in sooth is a marvellous, vain, fickle, and unstable subject.

The man who thinks he knows does not yet know what knowing is

Men are nothing until they are excited.