Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Men who do not contend in earnest can have little warmth and fervor in what they undertake, and are more than half prepared to betray the cause, in the vindication of which they have engaged their services.
A man with a soul is not like every other man.
It takes a lot to wound a man without illusions.
There are so many ways in which the heart of man conceals itself from man!
A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
The essence of a man is found in his faults.
No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.
They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.
Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.
Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.