The beard, being a half-mask, should be forbidden by the police - It is, moreover, as a sexual symbol in the middle of the face, obscene: that is why it pleases women.

Everything that happens, happens of necessity.

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.

For, after all, the foundation of our whole nature, and, therefore, of our happiness, is our physique, and the most essential factor in happiness is health, and, next in importance after health, the ability to maintain ourselves in independence and freedom from care.

It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.

Thus also every keen pleasure is an error and an illusion, for no attained wish can give lasting satisfaction.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.