A man always judges himself by the balance he can strike between the needs of his body and the demands of his mind.
A man always finds it hard to realise that he may have finally lost a woman’s love, however badly he may have treated her.
A living man can be enslaved and reduced to the historic condition of an object. But if he dies in refusing to be enslaved, he reaffirms the existence of another kind of human nature which refuses to be classified as an object.
A learned man ought to know a little of everything.
A husband never loses anything by appearing to believe in the fidelity of his wife, by preserving an air of patience and by keeping silence. Silence especially troubles a woman amazingly.
A fool who says nothing cannot be distinguished from a wise man who holds his tongue.[Un sot qui ne dit mot, ne se distingue pas D’un savant qui se tait.]
A faith; this is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
A craving for freedom and independence is generated only in a man still living on hope.
A coward is a man who can foresee the future. A brave man is almost always without imagination.
‘Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.
