To learn from our enemies is the best pathway to loving them: for it makes us grateful to them.

Democracy represents the disbelief in all great men and in all elite societies: everybody is everybody's equal.

My brother, are war and battle evil? Necessary, however, is the evil; necessary are the envy and the distrust and the back-biting among the virtues.

If that glad message of your Bible were written in your faces, you would not need to demand belief in the authority of that book in such stiff-necked fashion.

The final reward of the dead - to die no more

A woman does not want the truth; what is truth to women? From the beginning, nothing has been more alien, repugnant, and hostile to woman than the truth - her great art is the lie, her highest concern is mere appearance and beauty.

One should never know too precisely whom one has married