"Women remain children all their lives, for they always see only what is near at hand, cling to the present, take the appearance of a thing for reality, and prefer trifling matters to the most importan…"

"The only truly happy people are children and idiots."

"The world is my representation."

"The greatest happiness for man is to escape the necessity of being born."

"There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnit…"