"The greatest happiness is to be born without the faculty of reason."

"The truth is that we are all born mad. Some remain so."

"There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over."

"It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else."

"Women are directly fitted for acting as the nurses and educators of our early childhood, by the fact that they are themselves childish, frivolous and short-sighted."