Women remain children all their lives, for they always see only what is near at hand, cling to the present, take the appearance of a thing for reality, and prefer trifling matters to the most important.

Materialism is the philosophy of the subject who forgets to take account of himself.

Many undoubtedly owe their good fortune to the circumstance that they possess a pleasing smile with which they win hearts. Yet these hearts would do better to beware and to learn from Hamlet's tables that one may smile, and smile, and be a villain.

Writers may be classified as meteors, planets, and fixed stars.

The principle of contradiction establishes merely the agreement of concepts, but does not itself produce concepts.

The bad thing about all religions is that, instead of being able to confess their allegorical nature, they have to conceal it.

Honour is external conscience, and conscience is inward honour.