Plato calls complacency the companion of loneliness.

Christianity is the religion of melancholy and hypochondria. Islam, on the other hand, promotes apathy, and Judaism instills its adherents with a certain choleric vehemence, the heathen Greeks may well be called happy optimists.

It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all.

It is fair to despise a cowardly man, but the female sex is strongest when it's weak.

Profundity easily turns into dullness and astuteness deteriorates into wit. Be guided by natural common sense and it will accommodate great and small.

I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.

Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!