I do not love men: I love what devours them.

Most often it happens that one attributes to others only the feelings of which one is capable oneself.

Humanity cherishes its swaddling clothes; but it shall not grow up unless it can free itself from them. Turning down his mother's breast does not make the weaned child ungrateful. ... Rise up naked, valiant; make the sheaths crack; push aside the stakes; to grow straight you need no more than the thrust of your sap and the call of the sun.

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations.

Woe to these people who have no appetite for the very dish that their age serves up.

Atheism. There is not a single exalting and emancipating influence that does not in turn become inhibitory.

The abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise.