Men like us are good and proud and strong… if we had a faith, a God, nothing could undermine us. But we had nothing, we had to learn everything, and living for honor alone has its weaknesses…
Men inspired by prophecy will attempt any foolishness in the knowledge that the fates have ordained their victory.
Men in general are not this or that, they are what they are made to be.[Les hommes, en général, ne sont point ceci ou cela, ils sont ce qu’on les fait être.]
Men have scars, women mysteries.
Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.
Men have courage – one knows that, but they are more easily deceived than women.
Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.
Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because there is nothing to be gained by him.
Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.
Men fear wanderers for they have no rules.
Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand men lose interest quickly.
Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.
