Then is what you see through this window onto the world so lovely that you have no desire whatsoever to look out through any other window, and that you even make an attempt to prevent others from doing so?

In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.

The most common sort of lie is the one uttered to one's self.

The arrogance that accompanies merit offends us even more than the arrogance of people who are lacking in merit: since merit itself offends us.

Whoever despises himself still esteems the despiser within himself.

As an artist one has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nobody is more inferior than those who insist on being equal.