Two elements are needed to form a truth - a fact and an abstraction

Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.

Cliche refers to words, commonplace to ideas. Cliche describes the form or the letter, commonplace the substance or spirit. To confuse them is to confuse the thought with the expression of the thought. The cliche is immediately perceivable; the commonplace very often escapes notice if decked out in original dress. There are few examples, in any literature, of new ideas expressed in original form. The most critical mind must often be content with one or the other of these pleasures, only too happy when it is not deprived of both at once, which is not too rarely the case.

Thinking is hard work. One can't bear burdens and ideas at the same time

In order to understand life it is not only necessary not to be indifferent to men, but not to be indifferent to flocks, to trees. One should be indifferent to nothing.

The pleasure of being a scoundrel can be adequately savored in silence.

The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it.