Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.

Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.

Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure.

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.

Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.