Where do your greatest dangers lie?--In pity.

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

The perfect woman is a higher type of humanity than the perfect man, and also something much rarer. The natural history of animals furnishes grounds in support of this theory.

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.

Christianity, alcohol the two great means of corruption.

The Great Man... is colder, harder, less hesitating, and without fear of 'opinion'; he lacks the virtues that accompany respect and 'respectability,' and altogether everything that is the 'virtue of the herd.' If he cannot lead, he goes alone... He knows he is incommunicable: he finds it tasteless to be familiar... When not speaking to himself, he wears a mask. There is a solitude within him that is inaccessible to praise or blame.

Curiosity creeps into the houses of the unfortunate and the needy under the name of duty or of pity.