So rapid is the flight of our dreams upon the wings of imagination.

I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.

Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.

What I’ve loved most after you, is myself: that is, my dignity and that strength which made me superior to other men. That Strength was my life. You’ve broken it with a word, so I must die.

Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.

Nothing makes time pass or shortens the way like a thought that absorbs in itself all the faculties of the one who is thinking. External existence is then like a sleep of which this thought is the dream. Under its influence, time has no more measure, space has no more distance.

The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.