“Men understand the worth of blessings only when they have lost them.”
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Source: Poetical works
“Nowadays, all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors like married men.”
Source: Wilde Complete Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest; A Woman of No Importance; Salome; The Duchess of Padua; Vera, or the Nihilists; A Florentine Tragedy; La Sainte Courtisane
Source: The Devil's Dictionary
“The beauty of stature is the only beauty of men.”
Source: Montaigne's Essays in Three Books: With Notes and Quotations. And an Account of the Author's Life. With a Short Character of the Author and Translator
Source: Judith. Tiger at the gates. Duel of angels
“O, what men dare do! what men may do! what men daily do, not knowing what they do.”
“The value of ourselves is but the value of our melancholy and our disquiet.”
Source: The Treasure of the Humble: Works of Maeterlinck