El infierno y el paraíso me parecen desproporcionados. Los actos de los hombres no merecen tanto.

Ordinary men commonly condemn what is beyond them.

If this was so, then how many other acts of humankind that had seemed normal or even righteous were, in reality, evil?

This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.

In our judgment of men, we are to beware of giving any great importance to occasional acts. By acts of occasional virtue weak men endeavour to redeem themselves in their own estimation, vain men to exalt themselves in that of mankind.

It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.

I shall take leave to think the worse, rather of the practice of the men than of the book of God.

What is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards — When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.

All too often men with physical courage are disappointing in their moral imagination.

What a lamentable thing it is that men should blame the gods and regard us as the source of their troubles, when it is their own transgressions which bring them suffering that was not their destiny.

What a lamentable thing it is that men should blame the gods and regard us as the source of their troubles, when it is their own wickedness that brings them sufferings worse than any which destiny allots them.

Men have feverishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid, and a hell to find it ridiculous.