The bad gives rise to the good, the good inspires the better, the better produces the excellent, the excellent is followed by the bizarre

A nation which thinks that it is belief in God and not good law which makes people honest does not seem to me very advanced.

The world is the house of the strong. I shall not know until the end what I have lost or won in this place, in this vast gambling den where I have spent more than sixty years, dice box in hand, shaking the dice.

I feel, I think, I judge; therefore, a part of organized matter like me is capable of feeling, thinking, and judging.

When shall we see poets born? After a time of disasters and great misfortunes, when harrowed nations begin to breathe again. And then, shaken by the terror of such spectacles, imaginations will paint things entirely strange to those who have not witnessed them.

The following general definition of an animal: a system of different organic molecules that have combined with one another, under the impulsion of a sensation similar to an obtuse and muffled sense of touch given to them by the creator of matter as a whole, until each one of them has found the most suitable position for its shape and comfort.

My ideas are my whores.