“One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.”
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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.
Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.
Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.