"The greatest danger, that of losing one's own self, may pass off as quietly as if it were nothing at all."

"The ethical individual is the one who chooses himself, and thereby chooses the universal."

"To be a woman is something so strange, so confusing and so complicated that only a woman could put up with it."

"The greatest good is not to be born."

"The present age is essentially a sensible, reflecting age, which is without passion, and which therefore breaks out into no enthusiasm."