Transmitting one's flaws [through procreation] to someone else is a crime. I could never consent to give life to someone who would inherent my ailments.

Glory - once achieved, what is it worth?

Tears do not burn except in solitude.

Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of saving himself by hell than by paradise.

What a pity that 'nothingness' has been devalued by an abuse of it made by philosophers unworthy of it!

One hardly saves a world without ruling it.

The curtain of the universe is moth-eaten, and through its holes we see nothing now but mask and ghost.