A woman of the world is anxious to exhibit her form and shape, whether walking, standing, sitting, or sleeping. Even when represented as a picture, she desires to captivate with the charms of her beauty and, thus, to rob men of their steadfast heart.
The one who has conquered himself is a far greater hero than he who has defeated a thousand times a thousand men.
Low class men desire wealth; middle class men both wealth and respect; but the noble, honour only; hence honour is the noble man's true wealth.
We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.
The arrow shot by the archer may or may not kill a single person. But stratagems devised by wise men can kill even babes in the womb.
Women have hunger two-fold, shyness four-fold, daring six-fold, and lust eight-fold as compared to men.
The learned are envied by the foolish; rich men by the poor; chaste women by adulteresses; and beautiful ladies by ugly ones.
Those born blind cannot see; similarly blind are those in the grip of lust. Proud men have no perception of evil; and those bent on acquiring riches see no sin in their actions.
He who runs away from a fearful calamity, a foreign invasion, a terrible famine, and the companionship of wicked men is safe.
Whores don't live in company of poor men, citizens never support a weak company and birds don't build nests on a tree that doesn't bear fruits.
I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
Fear of disease killed more men than disease itself.
A voice said, Look me in the stars And tell me truly, men of earth, If all the soul-and-body scars Were not too much to pay for birth.
While God waits for His temple to be built of love, men bring stones.
Men can only think. Women have a way of understanding without thinking. Woman was created out of God's own fancy. Man, He had to hammer into shape.
I wish all men to be free.
If the negro is a man, why then my ancient faith teaches me that ``all men are created equal;'' and that there can be no moral right in connection with one man's making a slave of another.
I think the negro is included in the word 'men' used in the Declaration of Independence.
I have some little notoriety for commiserating the oppressed condition of the negro; and I should be strangely inconsistent if I could favor any project for curtailing the existing rights of white men, even though born in different lands, and speaking different languages from myself.
Understanding the spirit of our institutions to aim at the elevation of men, I am opposed to whatever tends to degrade them.
