Whom do you call bad?--Those who always want to induce shame.

Among the wealthy, generosity is often merely a kind of shyness.

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

It takes physical courage to indulge in wickedness. The "good" are too cowardly to do it.

Whoever regards human beings as a herd and flees them as swiftly as he can will no doubt be overtaken by them and impaled on theirhorns.

Unexplained, obscure matters are regarded as more important than explained, clear ones.

Anyone who has looked deeply into the world may guess how much wisdom lies in the superficiality of men. The instinct that preserves them teaches them to be flighty light, and false.