You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing to strange events of some sorts, frogs and lizards suddenly grew on apple and orange trees instead of fruit, or if roses began to smell like a sweating horse; so I marvel at you who exchange heaven for earth. I don't want to understand you.

I am now and have always been a stranger to the realm of practical matters.

The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on; science and art are as well.

It's even pleasant to be sick when you know that there are people who await your recovery as they might await a holiday.

Formerly, when I would feel a desire to understand someone, or myself, I would take into consideration not actions, in which everything is relative, but wishes. Tell me what you want and I'll tell you who you are.

A fiancé is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.