When a woman isn’t beautiful, people always say, ‘You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.’[Когда женщина некрасива, то ей говорят: «у вас прекрасные глаза, у вас прекрасные волосы»…]
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
When a man’s neck’s in danger, he doesn’t stop to think too much about sentiment.
When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.
When a man has once loved a woman, he will do anything for her, except continue to love her.
When a man has no enemy left there must be something mean about him.
When a man dies, it’s only him. And one is much like another. Aye, a family needs a man, to feed them, protect them. But any decent man can do it. A woman… A woman takes life with her when she goes. A woman is… infinite possibility.
When a man cannot fight he should curse. The gods like to feel needed.
When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.
What woman wants pity? A man’s sternness is to us our only pardon.
What they do not comprehend is man’s helplessness. I am weak, small, of no consequence to the universe. It does not notice me; I live on unseen. But why is that bad? Isn’t it better that way? Whom the gods notice they destroy. Be small…and you will escape the jealousy of the great.
What profit it a man if he gain the whole world but in this enterprise lose his soul?
