Share this sentence
— Madame de Stael"When men do wrong, it is out of hardness; when women do wrong, it is out of weakness."
Related information
Discover more quotes
Previous Quote
The noble man honours in himself the powerful one, him also who has power over himself, who knows how to speak and how to keep silence, who takes pleasure in subjecting himself to severity and hardness, and has reverence for all that is severe and hard.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Next Quote
The older I grow the more sharply I mistrust words. So few of them have any meaning left. It is impossible to write one sentence in which every word has the bareness and hardness of bones, the reality of the skeleton.
— Storm Jameson
Loading recommended content...