"The fundamental defect of the female character is a lack of a sense of justice. This originates first and foremost in their want of rationality and capacity for reflexion but it is strengthened by the…"

"The world is given to us to be contemplated, not to be enjoyed."

"The pleasure of life is fleeting; the pain of life is lasting."

"The only original philosophical thought possible is the one that starts from the fact of suffering."

"The nobler and more perfect a thing is, the later and slower it is in arriving at maturity. A man reaches the maturity of his reason and mental powers hardly before the age of eight-and-twenty; a woma…"