The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson, Kap. 16
Original engl.: "If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man."
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
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The Lowest Animal
Original engl.: "Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight."
The Lowest Animal
Notebook, 1894
Original engl.: "If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat."
Notebook
What is Man? / Old Man
Original engl.: "Duties are not performed for duty's SAKE, but because their NEGLECT would make the man UNCOMFORTABLE."
Andere
„Der Mensch tut viel, um geliebt zu werden, aber alles, um beneidet zu werden.“
Following the Equator, chapter XXI
Original engl.: Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.
Following the Equator

The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson, chapter 2
Original engl.: "Adam was but human - this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden."
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
Mark Twain, a Biography volume II Part 2 1886-1900, CCII
Original engl.: "I am quite sure that […] I have no race prejudices, and I think I have no colour prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. […] All that I care to know is that a man is a human being - that is enough for me; he can't be any worse."
„Der Mensch ist das einzige Lebewesen, das erröten kann. Oder sollte.“
Following the Equator, chapter XXVII
Original engl.: "Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to."
Following the Equator
„Der Mensch wurde am Ende der Wochenarbeit erschaffen, als Gott bereits müde war.“
Notebook, 19. März 1903; in Mark Twain, a Biography Part 3 1900-1907
Original engl.: "Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired."
Notebook