"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…"

"We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success."

"The value of a man is measured by the extent to which he is willing to submit to the yoke of suffering."

"The animal enjoys the present, man is tormented by the future."

"The world is a stage on which a tragedy is performed, and the actors are all madmen."