Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.

You must be born for your physician, otherwise you are bound to perish because of your physician.

I love something: and scarcely do I love it completely when the tyrant in me says: "I want that in sacrifice." This cruelty is in my entrails. Behold! I am evil.

The living is a species of the dead; and not a very attractive one.

Among human beings there is no greater banality than death. Second in order, because it is possible to die without being born, comes birth, and next comes marriage.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art.