The pettiness of a mind can be measured by the pettiness of its adoration or its blasphemy.

To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations.

Sadness is a state of sin.

Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

One should want only one thing and want it constantly. Then one is sure of getting it. But I desire everything, and consequently get nothing.

When you have nothing to say, or to hide, there is no need to be prudent.

The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.