The chivalrous man. The manly lover --
Orpheus and Eurydice / Thomas Bulfinch --
The art of courtly love / Andreas Capellanus --
Love and self-perfection / Baldesar Castiglione --
Isis and Osiris / Thomas Bulfinch --
The rules of love / Andreas Capellanus --
Love and valor / Thomas Bulfinch --
Why Lancelot doesn't marry / Sir Thomas Malory --
Older men make better lovers / Baldesar Castiglione --
Love or wisdom? / Francis Bacon --
Love or duty? / Xenophon --
Lancelot and Guenever / Thomas Bulfinch --
Dido and Aeneas / Thomas Bulfinch --
Breaking up is hard to do / Aristophanes (from Plato) --
Diana and Actaeon / Thomas Bulfinch --
Seduction by the devil / Thomas Bulfinch and Sir Thomas Malory --
Love, honor and chastity / Sir Thomas Malory --
Tristram and Isoude / Thomas Bulfinch --
Sir Lancelot disgraced / Thomas Bulfinch --
Apollo and Daphne / Thomas Bulfinch --
The narcissist / Thomas Bulfinch --
The temptation of Sir Gawain / Anonymous --
Manliness toward women --
Ladies first / Thomas Bulfinch --
Never use force against a woman / Sir Thomas Malory --
Attraction to beauty is no excuse / Sir Thomas Malory --
Every man thinketh his own lady fairest / Sir Thomas Malory --
How a man can increase and decrease a lady's love / Andreas Capellanus --
Stalkers beware! / Sir Thomas Malory --
Advice to husbands: don't use your wife to bait a trap / Thomas Bulfinch --
The death of Robin Hood / Thomas Bulfinch --
Revenge against women is shameful / Sir Thomas Malory --
What women really want in a man / Thomas Bulfinch --
Stick your neck out and close your eyes / Geoffrey Chaucer --
Can a businessman make a good lover? / Andreas Capellanus --
The testimony of a disappointed wife / Geoffrey Chaucer --
The wife of Bath has the last word / Geoffrey Chaucer --
Sigh no more, ladies / William Shakespeare --
Pyramus and Thisbe / Thomas Bulfinch --
Emile and Sophy / Jean-Jacques Rousseau --
The sorrows of youth / r ohann Wolfgang von Goethe --Leon Battista Alberti --
The spread of wertherism among young men / Karl Hillebrand --
Lotte! Lotte, farewell! / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe --
The age of innocence / Edith Wharton --
The gentleman. A well-bred man --
Austen on gentlemanliness / Jane Austen --
A gentleman avoids vulgarity / Lord Chesterfield --
The sun king / Duke of Saint-Simon --
The importance of good grooming and good company / Lord Chesterfield --
The boor / Theophrastus --
The art of good manners / Jonathan Swift --
A club man / Sir Richard Steele --
The country gentleman / Anthony Trollope --
Gentlemanly reserve / William Shenstone --
The ugly club / Sir Richard Steele --
Manly character and conduct --
The rules of Harvard College (1643) --
A travel guide for young men / Francis Bacon --
Pride and prejudice / Jane Austen --
Do not be a rake / Lord Chesterfield --
John Grey, the worthy man / Anthony Trollope --
The knight / Geoffrey Chaucer --
Honor and reputation / Francis Bacon --
Temperance / Baldesar Castiglione --
The man without moral feeling / Theophrastus --
Practice makes perfect / John Locke --
On friendship / Aristotle --
The lover of bad company / Theophrastus --
The wise man. The wise man of affairs --
Where do you shop for wisdom? / Diogenes Laertius --
My son, be admonished! / Ecclesiastes --
How should a young man live? / Plato --
Daedalus and Icarus / Thomas Bulfinch --
The man of discipline / The Bhagavad-Gita --
Virtue or vice? / Plato --
The value of study / Francis Bacon --
Why a man must be liberally educated if he is to gain eternal fame / Baldesar Castiglione --
Men's happiness or misery is mostly of their own making / John Locke --
The contemplative man and the active man / Aristotle --
The dream of Scipio / Cicero --
A man of principles / John Locke --
How a grown man should live / Plato --
The child is father of the man / William Wordsworth --
The painful path to manhood / St. Augustine --
The man of eternal renunciation / The Bhagavad-Gita --
The four ages of man / W.B. Yeats --
Reflections on a man's success / William James --
A man must stand erect / Marcus Aurelius --
Intimations of immortality from recollections of childhood / William Wordsworth --
Death is not to be feared / Desiderius Erasmus --
The true spirit of man / The Bhagavad-Gita --
The two paths / St. Augustine --
The myth of the cave / Plato --
Levin wonders about the meaning of life / Leo Tolstoy --
The family man. Boys into men --
Telemachus's search for a father / Homer --
Educating boys / Michel de Montaigne --
The value of a fair fight / Thomas Hughes --
Telemachus finds his father / Homer --
The new kid in town / Mark Twain --
The education of Cyrus / Xenophon --
An early critic of rock music? / Jacopo Sadoleto --
Bringing up a prince / Desiderius Erasmus --
The lion and the mouse / Aesop --
It is held that schools corrupt the morals / Quintillian --
The boy and the Filberts / Aesop --
Shame is good in a boy / Jacopo Sadoleto --
The hare and the tortoise / Aesop --
A father's advice: neither a borrower nor a lender be / William Shakespeare --
Boys and teachers are honorable foes / Thomas Hughes --
A boy should be his own best critic / Jacopo Sadoleto --
Cyrus visits his grandfather / Xenophon --
The duties and education of children / Leon Battista Alberti --
The shepherd's boy and wolf / Aesop --
Youth must respect age / Jacopo Sadoleto --
The right kind of boy: brave and tender / Theodore Roosevelt --
The value of a boy's friendships / Thomas Hughes --
Phaeton aims too high / Thomas Bulfinch --
A father and son discuss education / Jacopo Sadoleto --
I have a boy of five years old / William Wordsworth --
The farmer and his son / Aesop --
Apply yourself, my boy / Lord Chesterfield --
A father pays attention all the time / Leon Battista Alberti --
A father's parting advice / Thomas Hughes --
Cyrus's father advises him on governing / Xenophon --
The father and his sons / Aesop --
A real man loathes cruelty and injustice / Theodore Roosevelt --
A father sets the example / A father must be his son's guide to maturity / Lord Chesterfield --
Son, what have I done to deserve this? / William Shakespeare --
On the affection of fathers for their children / Michel de Montaigne --
The king's son and the painted lion / Aesop --
A Roman father / Plutarch --
Fathers must earn their authority / Jacopo Sadoleto --
This fair child of mine / William Shakespeare --
The seven ages of man / William Shakespeare --
Odysseus comes home / Homer --
The Halcyon birds / Thomas Bulfinch --
Hektor and Andromache on the Walls of Troy / Homer --
Can a man be too honest? / William Shakespeare --
A son's mixed feelings / John Stuart Mill --
Married or single? / Francis Bacon --
Is it for fear to wet a widow's eye? / William Shakespeare --
The joys of parents are secret / Francis Bacon --
A childless man can be a father / Leon Battista Alberti --
Advice to a young man on marrying early / Benjamin Franklin --
My wife is my best friend / John Stuart Mill --
At his brother's grave / Robert G. Ingersoll --
Mother o'mine / Rudyard Kipling --
A man and his wife / Aesop --
Youth versus age / Francis Bacon --
Why should not old men be mad? / William Butler Yeats --
The statesman. The kingly man --
Two kings clashing: Achilles and Agamemnon / Homer --
David and Goliath / Samuel --
An insulting gift to a young monarch / William Shakespeare --
Achilles and Agamemnon reconciled / Homer --
The kingdom of the lion / Aesop --
The good prince and the evil prince / Desiderius Erasmus --
The good and great man beowulf / Thomas Bulfinch --
Theseus, the minotaur and other adventures / Thomas Bulfinch --
Henry the fifth rallies his troops before the Walls of Harfleur / William Shakespeare --
The frogs ask for a king / Aesop --
Napoleon, man of the world / Ralph Waldo Emerson --
Alfred the great, a model king and man / John Richard Green --
Tyrants will always be with us / Aesop --
The outstandingly virtuous prince / Niccolo Machiavelli --
The patriot king / Henry St.
John, Viscount Bolingbroke --
To be a king / Queen Elizabeth I --
Who should pilot the ship of state? / Plato --
The oath of the knights of the round table / Thomas Bulfinch --
The king of Sherwood Forest / Rosemary Sutcliffe --
The midas touch / Thomas Bulfinch --
The career of Charlemagne / Francois P.G. Guizot --
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers / William Shakespeare --
Manly leaders and citizens --
The man of character / Charles de Gaulle --
Letter to Benjamin Franklin / Edmund Burke --
The model citizen / Plutarch --
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him / William Shakespeare --
The mice in council / Aesop --
Prestige and the mystique of manly authority / Charles de Gaulle --
Everything that entitles a man to praise / Cicero --
The thief and the house dog / Aesop --
Liberty is order, liberty is strength / Charles James Fox --
To live up to an ideal! / Cicero --
The wolf and the house dog / Aesop --
Comparing the statesman and the soldier / Charles de Gaulle --
Always be prepared for war / Niccolo Machiavelli --
The wolves to the sheep: give peace a chance / Aesop --
What is the duty of a statesman to the voters? / Edmund Burke --
At last I had the authority. I slept soundly. / Winston S. Churchill --
Pericles's funeral oration and Thucydides's assessment of his statesmanship / Thucydides --
The wolves to the sheep dogs: give peace a chance / Aesop --
The noble man. The man of valor --
A fair fight / Thomas Bulfinch
The virtues of the soldier / Charles de Gaulle --
Not one step back unless ordered! The Battle of Stalingrad / M.S. Shumilov --
The lion in love / Aesop --
The meaning of courage / John Fitzgerald Kennedy --
A young man's first battle / Leo Tolstoy --
Make war, not love / William Shakespeare --
He had dreamed of battles all his life / Stephen Crane --
On courage / Aristotle --
The coward / Theophrastus --
"Oh, to die, to die for him!" / Leo Tolstoy --
The good war / Studs Terkel --
In Flanders Fields / Lieutenant-Colonel John McRae --
Friends through fighting: Robin Hood, Friar Tuck, and Little John / Thomas Bulfinch --
The man of integrity and honor --
The great-souled man / Aristotle --
A counterfeit man / William Shakespeare --
Achilles fights a river and learns a lesson / Homer --
Moral courage / Charles Dickens --
Conquer fortune with patience / Leon Battista Alberti --
The generous majesty of his nature: Lawrence of Arabia / Winston S. Churchill --
Toussaint L'Ouverture: soldier, statesman, martyr / Wendell Phillips --
Warriors don't always make the best husbands / William Shakespeare --
The happy warrior / William Wordsworth --
The value of adversity to a great man / Seneca --
Triumphing over adversity / Frederick Douglass --
What is a man? / William Shakespeare --
There was a time when our forefathers owned this great island / Red Jacket --
My forefathers were warriors / Tecumseh --
The hero deepened / Homer --
The ascent / Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn --
The American man. The American hero --
Freedom in all just pursuits / Thomas Jefferson --
The call to arms / Patrick Henry --
It is natural to believe in great men / Ralph Waldo Emerson --
The glory of our fathers / Josiah Quincy --
Democracy and the great man / Alexis de Tocqueville --
The sword of Washington! The staff of Franklin! / John Quincy Adams --
Illustrious man! / Charles James Fox --
Such men cannot die / Edward Everett --
Manly honor in democracy and aristocracy / Alexis de Tocqueville --
"Towering genius disdains a beaten path" / Abraham Lincoln --
Why there are so many men of ambition in the United States but so few lofty ambitions / Alexis de Tocqueville --
It was reserved for him to have command / Henry Watterson --
His life now is grafted upon the infinite / Henry Ward Beecher --
I have a dream / Martin Luther King Jr. --
A man among men / Theodore Roosevelt --
Were we truly men? / John Fitgerald Kennedy --
Robin Hood or the White House? / Mark Twain --
The democratic dad / Alexis de Tocqueville --
An American father: Robert E. Lee / Captain Robert E. Lee --
"A natural made gentleman" / William H. Herndon --
Men and women in America / Alexis de Tocqueville --
Men who greatly dared / Theodore Roosevelt --
Young husbands / Albert J. Beveridge --
Moral force gives a man both fearlessness and tranquillity / Ralph Waldo Emerson --
Family life and the average man's duty / Theodore Roosevelt --
The whistle / Benjamin Franklin --
The college man / Albert J. Beveridge --
A man must be a nonconformist / Ralph Waldo Emerson --
A successful man / Theodore Roosevelt --
The young man's second wind: on facing the world at fifty / Albert J. Beveridge --
No man is happy if he does not work / Theodore Roosevelt --
The invisible man. Rebellion and despair --
The end of something / Ernest Hemingway --
Oh damn them all, thought the adolescent / John Cheever --
"Most young men do not stand like ramrods or talk like Demosthenes" / James Dean --
The dark side: why teenaged boys are drawn to insanity, death and war / Finbarr O'Reilly --
What then shall we choose? Weight or lightness? / Milan Kundera --
Video games get very very ugly: masochism, mutilation, prostitution / Charles Mandel --
Television's virus of violence and the Jonesboro schoolyard shootings / Lieutenant-Colonel Dave Grossman --
Why the U.S. won't go to war / Michael Kelly --
Gender traits tie T.V. execs in knots / Brian Lowry --
Roll back the red carpet for boys / Donna Laframboise --
Marginal men / Barbara Ehrenreich --
The confusions of love --
The dangerous game of dating / Jonathan Foreman --
Collecting broken glass / Nino Ricci --
The sinking of mature romance / Michael Medved --
Enchanting and repulsive: what is gothic? / Michelle Wauchope --
Dad? I wish I'd known you when you were little / Raymond Carver --
Born to lose in 1962 / Social Distortion --
Sex and that postmodernist girl / David Foster Wallace --
Each other / Patrick Buckley --
"I don't want to sacrifice myself or my family" / interview with Kurt Cobain by Robert Hilburn.