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Men can never acquire respect by benevolence alone.

A man is in love when something in his head, something in his chest and something in his pants react to a certain woman.

Men take more pains to mask than to mend. Games lubricate the body and the mind. Observe all men, thyself most.

Providing for one's family as a good husband and father is a water-tight excuse for making money hand over fist. Greed may be a sin, exploitation of other people might, on the face of it, look rather nasty, but who can blame a man for "doing the best" for his children?

Every man is a borrower and a mimic; life is theatrical and literature a quotation.

Considering the absence of legal coercion, the surprising thing is that men have for so long, and, on the whole, so reliably, adhered to what we might call the "breadwinner ethic.

Men wrongly complain of Experience. With great abuse, they accuse her of leading them astray. But they actually set experience aside, turning from it with complaints as to our ignorance, causing us to be carried away by vain and foolish desires to promise ourselves, in her name, things that are not in her power; and saying that she is deceptive. Men are unjust in complaining of innocent Experience, constantly accusing her of error and of false evidence.

Because it is in the nature of things that they become extreme, we have passed down from manliness to cruelty. If I had been told when I was that there was a tavern in the town where the brave and the cruel were gathered together, I would have run all the way, and I would have gone up to the largest and leatheriest of the denizens and said, "If you truly love me, kill the bartender.

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

Women who strive to be equal to men lack ambition.

Women are among the most gracious phenomenons ever to walk the earth. I only sympathize for the many men who consider to be more manly is to be as much not like a woman.