One should not go into churches if one wants to breathe pure air.

I climb upon the highest mountains, laughing at all tragedies - whether real or imaginary.

The scaffolding must be removed once the house is built.

Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.

You must await your thirst and allow it to become complete: otherwise you will never discover your spring, which can never be anyone else's!

Or shall I go out as a light does, not first blown out by the wind, but grown tired and weary of itself - a burnt out light? Or finally, shall I blow myself out, so as not to burn out?

The same relation exists between merchant and pirate, who for a long period are one and the same person: where the one function appears to them inadvisable, they exercise the other.