What we know oman today is limited precisely by the extent to which we have regarded him as a machine.

Vanity is the fear of appearing original: it is thus a lack of pride, but not necessarily a lack of originality.

The advocates of a criminal are seldom artists enough to turn the beautiful terribleness of the deed to the advantage of the doer.

In all institutions from which the cold wind of open criticism is excluded, an innocent corruption begins to grow like a mushroom - for example, in senates and learned societies

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

When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.

We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we would wish them to be.