A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at six or seven great
men--Yes, and then to get round them. 94
From the senses originate all trustworthiness, all good conscience, all
evidence of truth. 95
Our vanity would like what we do best to pass precisely for what is
most difficult to us.--Concerning the origin of many systems of morals.
96
When a woman has scholarly inclinations there is generally something
wrong with her sexual nature. Barrenness itself conduces to a certain
virility of taste; man, indeed, if I may say so, is "the barren
animal." 96
That which an age considers evil is usually an unseasonable echo of
what was formerly considered good--the atavism of an old ideal. 97