"The perfect woman is a higher type of humanity than the perfect man, and also something much rarer."

"Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed."

"But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!"

"The thought of suicide is a strong consolation: by means of it one gets successfully through many a bad night."

"The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity."