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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.

Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.

Men are such power-seeking creatures, and they usually kill people to get to the throne.

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

Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you imagine.

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.

Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests.

Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.