Moreover, most people, assuming they had not altogether abandoned religious observances, or did not combine them naively with a thoroughly immoral way of living, had replace normal religious practice by more or less extravagant superstitions.

If it adapts itself to what the majority of our society wants, art will be a meaningless recreation.

When the body is sad, the heart languishes.

The world is unimportant and whoever recognizes this conquers his liberty.

Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard.

Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders.

Happiness too is inevitable.