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.

In a century or two, or in a millennium, people will live in a new way, a happier way. We won"t be there to see it - but it"s why we live, why we work. It"s why we suffer. We"re creating it. That"s the purpose of our existence. The only happiness we can know is to work toward that goal.

A person loves to talk about his illnesses although that is the least interesting part of his life.

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

I think that it would be less difficult to live eternally than to be deprived of sleep throughout life.

It's better to live down a scandal than to ruin one's life.

Our pride and self-importance are European, while our development and actions are Asiatic.