Men are so simple of mind, and so much dominated by their immediate needs, that a deceitful man will always find plenty who are ready to be deceived.

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

Men under stress are fools, and fool themselves.

Men are so simple, and governed so absolutely by their present needs, that he who wishes to deceive will never fail in finding willing dupes.

We men are wretched things.

Man is fallible, but maybe men are less so.

It's too easy to criticize a man when he's out of favour, and to make him shoulder the blame for everybody else's mistakes.

Men are always doomed to be duped, not so much by the arts of the sex, as by their own imaginations. They are always wooing goddesses, and marrying mere mortals.

War makes monsters of men, you once said to me Todd. Well, so does too much knowledge. Too much knowledge of your fellow man, too much knowledge of his weakness, his pathetic greed and vanity, and how laughably easy it is to control him.

Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.

Men are such faithless creatures

"Humanity!" he thought. "As they were two, three, four thousand years ago, so today! To mould them, to drill them, to dominate them — it's all too sickeningly easy." And

When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.

All men make mistakes.