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The most demure saying I have ever heard: "In true love it's the soul which envelops the body."³

143

What we do best our vanity wishes to value as the thing which is most difficult for us. The origin of many a morality.

144

When a woman has scholarly inclinations, then something is usually wrong with her sexuality. Infertility itself tends to encourage a certain masculinity of taste, for man is, if I may say so, "the infertile animal."

145

In comparing man and woman in general we can say that woman would not have the genius for finery if she did not have the instinct for the secondary role.

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Anyone who fights with monsters should make sure that he does not in the process become a monster himself. And when you look for a long time into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.