Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

All philosophers should end their days at Pythia's feet. There is only one philosophy, that of unique moments.

The Art of Love: knowing how to combine the temperament of a vampire with the discretion of an anemone.

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Knowledge, having irritated and stimulated our appetite for power, will lead us inexorably to our ruin.

In order to have the stuff of a tyrant, a certain mental derangement is necessary.

Think of God and not religion, of ecstasy and not mysticism. The difference between the theoretician of faith and the believer is as great as between the psychiatrist and the psychotic.