Stupidity in a woman is unfeminine.

We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgement.

In the stream.- Mighty waters draw much stone and rubble along with them; mighty spirits many stupid and bewildered heads.

So far no one had had enough courage and intelligence to reveal me to my dear Germans. My problems are new, my psychological horizon frighteningly comprehensive, my language bold and clear; there may well be no books written in German which are richer in ideas and more independent than mine.

The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons.

The purpose of criminal law is to punish the enemies of those in power.

The will to overcome an emotion, is ultimately only the will of another, or of several other, emotions.