“Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.”– Blaise Pascal Related Quotes “The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.”– Plato “It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend.”– Francois de La Rochefoucauld “He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.”– Immanuel Kant