alent is like the marksman who hits a target which others cannot reach; genius is like the marksman who hits a target, as far as which others cannot even see.

[T]he moralists of Europe [have] pretended that beasts have no rights... a doctrine revolting/gross/barbarous... on which a native of the Asiatic uplands could not look without righteous horror.

The problem with Germans is that they look in the clouds for what lies at their feet.

A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

That which knows all things and is known by none is the subject.

There are 80,000 prostitutes in London alone and what are they, if not bloody sacrifices on the altar of monogamy?