What I understand by "philosopher": a terrible explosive in the presence of which everything is in danger.
Where neither love nor hatred is in the game, a woman's game is mediocre.
Woman learns how to hate in proportion as she forgets how to charm.
Close beside my knowledge lies my black ignorance.
In affability there is no hatred of men, but for that very reason there is all too much contempt for men.
A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.