I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman.

He mistook, as the cleverest men often do mistake, in underrating the cruelty of women.

Men are always optimists when they look inwards, and pessimists when they look around them.

Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey.

The philosopher stands at his desk in the lecture hall, and demonstrates away the soul of man, and with exact thought measures out his atoms and resolves him back to gas and air. But the revolutionary, below in the crowd, hears, and only translates what he hears thus to his brethren: 'Let us drink while we may; property is robbery; this life is all; let us kill and eat; there is no God.

Opposition to a man in love is like oil to fire.

In its permission to man to render subject to him all other living creatures of the earth, it continued the cruelty of the barbarian and the pagan, and endowed these with what appeared a divine authority ...

there is no applause that so flatters a man as that which he wrings from unwilling throats ...