But it has often happened that I have found the most seductive depictions of sin in the pages of those very men of incorruptible virtue who condemned their spell and their effects.
But men love abstract reasoning and neat systematization so much that they think nothing of distorting the truth, closing their eyes and ears to contrary evidence to preserve their logical constructions.
I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.
I can't count the men who have tried to seduce me away from my virtue by teaching me how to defend it.
Even despotism does not produce its worst effects, so long as individuality exists under it; and whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called, and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctio...
When all men give to all others all the rights they claim for themselves, this world will be civilized.
Let most men have a finger and they will have the whole hand before you know. Let a clan cheif have a finger and he will have the entire arm.
I almost never respect men. They're like flowers -- all show, a lot of color and lust. You pick them and throw them on the ground.
They had supported him ... for freedom's sake, they would have said; meaning as do all men who mouth that catchword, freedom for themselves and their own class.
I went out the kitchen to make coffee - yards of coffee. Rich, strong, bitter, boiling hot, ruthless, depraved. The life blood of tired men.
the writing of some men is like a vast bridge that carries you over the many things that claw and tear. The Wine of Forever
If you want to have your dreamed husband, you better not wake up; because in real life, all men are assholes.
. . . for men felt therein the presence of that great human thing which is called law, and that great divine thing which is called justice.
leave him free, and the mere sense of liberty would content him, joined to the knowledge that his presence was dear to those whom he loved best.
Whether true or false, what is said about men often has as much influence on their lives, and particularly on their destinies, as what they do.
Men? One never knows where to find them. The wind blows them away. They have no roots, and that makes their life very difficult.
My God is the one who exists apart from all of men’s agendas, the God who takes you away when there is no possible place you can go.
Has Westhaven taken to gossiping?" "He has not, but like most men, you assume the only communications of significance pass between the males of the species.
Men have to have heroes, but no man can ever be as big as the need, and so a legend grows around a grain of truth, like a pearl.
I never understood how men could remember all those details about sports but, yet, were incapable of remembering where they set their car keys or wallet.
I once had been in the middle of a mass chaos and terrible riots. There, I witnessed how men were truly such as beasts unleashed.
