Sensuality often makes love grow too quickly, so that the root remains weak and is easy to pull out.

The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons.

Sometimes we remain true to a cause simply because its opponents are unfailingly tasteless.

O my brothers, am I then cruel? But I say: that which is falling should also be pushed!

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.

Without passions you have no experience whatever.

What does your conscience say? — 'You should become the person you are'.