In revenge and in love, woman is more barbarous than man.

That which intoxicates, the sensually ecstatic, the sudden surprise, the urge to be profoundly stirred at any price -- dreadful tendencies!

When a man is ill his very goodness is sickly.

I am a law only for my kind, I am no law for all.

We attack not only to hurt someone, to defeat him, but perhaps also simply to become conscious of our own strength.

Every relationship that does not raise us up pulls us down, and vice versa; this is why men usually sink down somewhat when they take wives while women are usually somewhat raised up. Overly spiritual men require marriage every bit as much as they resist it as bitter medicine.

The best belongs to me and mine; and if we are not given it, we take it: the best food, the purest sky, the most robust thoughts, the fairest women!