We Justly Consider Women To Be Weaker

The Success Of Many Books Is Due To The Affinity Between The Mediocrity Of The Author's Ideas And Those Of The Public.

It Is Inconceivable How Much Wit It Requires To Avoid Being Ridiculous.

Whoever Is Not A Misanthrope At Forty Can Never Have Loved Mankind.

Nature In Causing Reason And The Passions To Be Born At One And The Same Time Apparently Wished By The Latter Gift To Distract Man From The Evil She Had Done Him By The Former, And By Only Permitting Him To Live For A Few Years After The Loss Of His Passions Seems To Show Her Pity By Early Deliverance From A Life That Reduces Him To Reason As His Sole Resource.

Tragedy Has The Great Moral Defect Of Giving Too Much Importance To Life And Death.