“Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.”– Blaise Pascal Related Quotes “On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.”– H. Allen Smith “As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.”– Blaise Pascal “A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities.”– Thomas Jefferson