Man is the only animal who causes pain to others with no other object than wanting to do so.

It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.

He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts.

The beard, being a half-mask, should be forbidden by the police - It is, moreover, as a sexual symbol in the middle of the face, obscene: that is why it pleases women.

The law of simplicity and naïveté applies to all fine art, for it is compatible with what is most sublime.

Man is the only animal who causes pain to others with no other object than wanting to do so.

Scholars are those who have read in books, but thinkers, men of genius, world-enlighteners, and reformers of the human race are those who have read directly in the book of the world.