Great men's errors are to be venerated as more fruitful than little men's truths.
The spirit of the poet craves spectators... even if only buffaloes.
Oh, how much is today hidden by science! Oh, how much it is expected to hide!
One is necessary, one is a piece of fate, one belongs to the whole, one is the whole - there exists nothing which could judge, measure, compare, condemn our being, for that would be to judge, measure, compare, condemn the whole...But nothing exists apart from the whole!
The courage of all one really knows comes but late in life.
Sins are indispensable to every society organized on an ecclesiastical basis; they are the only reliable weapons of power; the priest lives upon sins; it is necessary to him that there be sinning.