Pastoral Resources

Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony.

Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

I love men, not for what unites them, but for what divides them, and I want to know most of all what gnaws at their hearts.

How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know.

There is but one Church in which men find salvation, just as outside the ark of Noah it was not possible for anyone to be saved.

Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.

By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.

Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.

Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.

I spent my first three weeks there on a wing with 21 murderers. I met some very evil people there but also some men who'd had no upbringing, no chance in life.

I pick good women, but I haven't had any luck with my men.

The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.

Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

Bad men are full of repentance.

All men by nature desire knowledge.