# The art of taking a wife

Author: Mantegazza, Paolo, 1831-1910

Genre: Category: Philosophy & Ethics

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/57042

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+art+of+taking+a+wife+Mantegazza&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Of all paradoxes man is the cleverest and most untiring. He says he is a worm of the earth, but believes himself to be a son of God; his own person he clothes modestly, but revels in discovering the nakedness of the greatest possible number of his sisters in Christ. The more he humiliates himself, the prouder he is; the more he vaunts his generosity, so much the more is he egotistical; an adorer of liberty in theory, but in practice a daily contriver of tyrannies.

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-art-of-taking-a-wife-57042/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-art-of-taking-a-wife-57042/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-art-of-taking-a-wife-57042/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-art-of-taking-a-wife-57042/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-art-of-taking-a-wife-57042/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-art-of-taking-a-wife-57042/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-art-of-taking-a-wife-57042/chapters/6/index.md)
- [part I have under my eyes a young man, the perfection of a man,](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-art-of-taking-a-wife-57042/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-art-of-taking-a-wife-57042/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-art-of-taking-a-wife-57042/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-art-of-taking-a-wife-57042/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-art-of-taking-a-wife-57042/chapters/4/index.md)