Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy.
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Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.
Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.
Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests.
Men are fighting... because they are convinced that the extermination of adversaries is the only means of promoting their own well-being.
When women are angry at men, they call them heartless. When men are angry at women, they call them crazy. Sometimes it doesn't stop there.
Men's most superficial feelings lead them to prefer cruel laws. Nevertheless, when they are subjected to them themselves, it is in each man's interest that they be moderate, because the fear of being injured is greater than the desire to injure.
Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.
The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.
All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.
A lot of the messed-up stuff that men inflict on women is kind of a symptom of the messed-up stuff that they should be dealing with themselves.
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