The strongest knowledge (that of the total freedom of the human will) is nonetheless the poorest in successes: for it always has the strongest opponent, human vanity.

One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypnotized by any single detail of one's life.

One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions.

The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports.

What is happening to me happens to all fruits that grow ripe. It is the honey in my veins that makes my blood thicker, and my soul quieter.

All contempt for the sexual life, all denigration under the concept 'impure" is the essential crime against Life- against the Holy Spirit of Life".

People who, out of an inborn moderation, leave every glass standing only half-emptied refuse to admit that everything in the world has its sediments and dregs.