We should not talk about our friends: otherwise we will talk away the feeling of friendship.

Has a woman who knew she was well-dressed ever caught a cold?

THE TEACHER AS A NECESSARY EVIL. Let us have as few people as possible between the productive minds and the hungry and recipient minds! The middlemen almost unconsciously adulterate the food which they supply. It is because of teachers that so little is learned, and that so badly.

People who comprehend a thing to its very depths rarely stay faithful to it forever. For they have brought its depths into the light of day: and in the depths there is always much that is unpleasant to see.

The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing.

To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.

Woman learns how to hate in proportion as she forgets how to charm.