Time, matter, space - all, it may be, are no more than a point.

First move me, astonish me, break my heart, let me tremble, weep, stare, be enraged-only then regale my eyes.

My ideas are my whores.

If there are one hundred thousand damned souls for one saved soul, the devil has always the advantage without having given up his son to death.

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.

We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.

There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death.