It always seems to the brothers and the father that their brother or son didn't marry the right person.

Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given.

If you wish women to love you be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter & women fell in love with him.

Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.

My holy of holies is the human body.

I promise to be a splendid husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, won't in my sky every day...

[In] death at least there would be one profit; it would no longer be necessary to eat, to drink, to pay taxes, or to [offend] others; and as a man lies in his grave not one year, but hundreds and thousands of years, the profit was enormous. The life of man was, in short, a loss, and only his death a profit.