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VIII.
He who can manage one woman can govern a nation. The converse is not always true.
IX.
Women can "live upon air" — but not without it. Many conjugal apartments are rendered sad by ill-ventilation.
X.
A man may love several at the same time; a woman but "one at a time, and often."
XI.
The man who assumes that a woman can love but once, is an egotist or a fool.
XII.
Women are more faithful and less constant than men.
XIII.
Jealousy in a man is an inconsistent passion; he is loved or he is not loved — in either case jealousy is useless.
XIV.
When a woman takes suddenly to habits of devotion, she is almost always struggling with a new love or forgetting an old one — often both.
XV.
The man who forces idleness upon his wife, exposes her to every temptation that can assail a woman.
