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

"State," I call it, where they all drink poison, the good and the wicked; "state," where they all lose themselves, the good and the wicked; "state," where they all call their slow suicide-"life."

The life of the enemy . Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive.

Only idiots fail to contradict themselves three times a day.

In true love it is the soul that envelops the body.

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

How much truth does a spirit endure, how much truth does it dare?