Exhaustion is the shortest way to equality and fraternity.

Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.

We no longer love our knowledge enough once we have passed it on.

There are men who desire power simply for the sake of the happiness it will bring; these belong chiefly to political parties.

Truth as Circe. - Error has transformed animals into men; is truth perhaps capable of changing man back into an animal?

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

It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.