The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.

In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.

If only we could lean over the soul we love and see as in a mirror the image we cast!

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.

Clear and precise ideas are the most dangerous, for one does not dare to change them.

An opinion, though it is original, does not necessarily differ from the accepted opinion; the important thing is that it does not try to conform to it.

The true return to nature is the definitive return to the elements-death.