There are plagues, and there are victims, and it's the duty of good men not to join forces with the plagues.

There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being rebels against order. But without it I would die, scattered to the winds.

But when a man has had only four hours' sleep he isn't sentimental. He sees things as they are: that is to say, he sees them in the garish light of justice; hideous, witless justice.

Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.

In Holland, everyone is an expert in painting and in tulips.