Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile.

The higher culture an individual attains, the less field there is left for mockery and scorn.

If a woman possesses manly virtues, she is to be run away from; and if she does not possess them, she runs away herself.

I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lost its healthy animal reason - as the mad animal, as the laughing animal, as the weeping animal, as the unhappy animal.

We must take precautions against being prematurely honed sharp--since at the same time we are being prematurely honed thin.

For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.

By means of music the very passions, enjoy themselves.