The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.