The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

He who look at a woman who is not his wife as a mother; wealth that is not his as dust and all the men as himself... is a happy man. He, who sees all these things under a different light, is a blind.

I have the heart of a man, not a woman, and I am not afraid of anything.

Six hours sleep for a man, seven for a woman and eight for a fool.

A wise man should marry a virgin of a respectable family even if she is deformed. He should not marry one of a low-class family, through beauty. Marriage in a family of equal status is preferable.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.