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

"The only way to be happy is to be unhappy."

"The only truly happy beings are those who have never been born."

"Women are the sexus sequior, the second sex in every respect, inferior to the first: we should therefore consider their weaknesses with some forbearance. It is because of these weaknesses that they ar…"

"The only thing that can reconcile us to life is the thought of death."