It is the powerful who know how to honour, it is their art, their domain for invention.

Women are quite able to make friends with a man; but to preserve such a friendship - that no doubt requires the assistance of a slight physical antipathy

The good four. Honest with ourselves and with whatever is friend to us; courageous toward the enemy; generous toward the vanquished; polite-always that is how the four cardinal virtues want us.

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

Many people, especially women, never experience boredom because they have never learned to work properly.

I enquire now as to the genesis of a philologist and assert the following: 1. A young man cannot possibly know what Greeks and Romans are. 2. He does not know whether he is suited for finding out about them.

The living is merely a type of what is dead, and a very rare type.