Let the will embrace the highest ideals freely and with infinite strength, but let action first take hold of what lies closest.

Do you think that it is possible to have a mere taste of commonness? Either one hates it or makes common cause with it.

What's the meaning of all the pious clamor, condemning cocks and hens? Those who have no teeth are the greatest meat-haters.

Moons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light.

Morality, a muzzle for the will; logic, a climbing iron for the mind.

The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.