Cynicism is the only form in which base souls approach honesty.

Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.

And many such good inventions are there, that they are like woman's breasts: useful at the same time, and pleasant.

This verse gets me through each day, what doesn't kill us makes us stronger! I am not afraid of anything because the lord is my shepherd!

Whether a man hides his bad qualities and vices or confesses them openly, his vanity wants to gain an advantage by it in both cases: just note how subtly he distinguishes between those he will hide his bad qualities from and those he will face honestly and candidly.

If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.