All that the world most needs today, is combined in the most seductive manner in his art, — the three great stimulants of exhausted people: brutality, artificiality and innocence (idiocy).

Strength is the morality of the man who stands out from the rest, and it is mine.

He who seeks intelligence lacks intelligence.

What is the truth, but a lie agreed upon.

There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.

The condition that gives birth to a rule is not the same as the condition to which the rule gives birth.

Is not wounded vanity the mother of all tragedies?