Sexual passion is the cause of war and the end of peace, the basis of what is serious... and consequently the concentration of all desire

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.

The greatest intellectual capacities are only found in connection with a vehement and passionate will.

If God made the world, I would not be that God, for the misery of the world would break my heart.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.

No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.

Every human perfection is allied to a defect into which it threatens to pass, but it is also true that every defect is allied to a perfection.