What a pity that 'nothingness' has been devalued by an abuse of it made by philosophers unworthy of it!
A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.
Every form of talent involves a certain shameless-ness.
If we manage to last in spite of everything, it is because our infirmities are so many and so contradictory that they cancel each other out.
Discretion is deadly to genius; ruinous to talent.
To Foreswear vengeance is to chain oneself to forgiveness, to flounder in pardon, to be tainted by the hatred smothered within.