Man must not only make himself: the weightiest thing he has to do is to determine what he is going to be. He is causa sui to the second power. History as a System
Yet living and dying, honour and dishonour, pain and pleasure, riches and poverty, and so forth are equally the lot of good men and bad. Things like these neither elevate nor degrade; and therefore they are no more good than they are evil. Book II
Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear. An Ideal Husband
Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men. Feminine Psychology
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