"A completely truthful woman who does not practice dissimulation is perhaps an impossibility."

"Women are the causa causorum of all human misery."

"The life of an individual is a constant struggle, and not merely a metaphorical one against want or boredom, but also an actual struggle against other people. He discovers adversaries everywhere, live…"

"Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world."

"It would be better if there were nothing. Since there is more pain than pleasure on earth, every satisfaction is only transitory, creating new desires and new distresses, and the agony of the devoured…"