 Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman. |
| Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob. |
| It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies. |
| Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless. |
| Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings. |
| Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly. |
| Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded. |
| The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. |
| Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement. |
| Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't. |
| The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything. |
| In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame. |
| And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh. |
| Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them. |
| Plato was a bore. Topics: Short |
| Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders. |
| Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species. |
| The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends. |
| Fear is the mother of morality. |
| When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets. |
