Children from humble families must be taught how to command just as other children must be taught how to obey.

One is most dishonest to one's god: he is not allowed to sin.

Once and for all, there are many things I choose not to know.--Wisdom sets limits even to knowledge.

Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, stranger, sweeter, soulful--but as something which has to be caged up so that it shall not fly away.

Natural death is independent of all reason and is really an irrational death, in which the pitiable substance of the shell determines how long the kernel is to exist or not; in which, accordingly, the stunted, diseased and dull witted jailer is lord, and indicates the moment at which his distinguished prisoner shall die.

Phlegmatic natures can be inspired to enthusiasm only by being made into fanatics.

The consequences of our actions take hold of us, quite indifferent to our claim that meanwhile we have 'improved.