One must know how to conserve oneself- the best test of independence.

Women's modesty generally increases with their beauty.

We ought to fear a man who hates himself, for we are at risk of becoming victims of his anger and revenge. Let us then try to lure him into self-love.

The task is not to overcome opponents in general but only those opponents against whom one has to summon all one's strength, one's skill and one's swordsmanship-in fact to master opponents who are one's equals.

For the longest time, marriage has had a guilty conscience about itself. Should we believe it?--Yes, we should believe it.

Spiritual strength and passion, when accompanied by bad manners, only provoke loathing.

Different types of dangerous lives-You have no idea what you are living through; you rush through life as if you were drunk and now and then fall down some staircase. But thanks to your drunkenness you never break a limb; your muscles are too relaxed and your brain too benighted for you to find the stones of these stairs as hard as we do.