Another Christian concept, no less crazy, has passed even more deeply into the tissue of modernity: the concept of the 'equality of souls before God.' This concept furnishes the prototype of all theories of equal rights.

If you go to see the woman, do not forget the whip.

I hate you most because you attract, but are not strong enough to pull me to you.

If a woman possesses manly virtues, she is to be run away from; and if she does not possess them, she runs away herself.

Without music, life would be a mistake... I would only believe in a God who knew how to dance.

The apprentice and the master love the master in different ways.

To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there.