Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.
If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.
In the end we are always rewarded for our good will, our patience, fair-mindedness, and gentleness with what is strange.
In music the passions enjoy themselves.
The good displeases us when we are not up to it.
Man is not equally moral at all hours, this is well known. If his morality is judged to be the capability for great self-sacrificing resolutions and self-denial (which, when continuous and grown habitual, are called holiness)