Sensuality often hastens the "Growth of Love" so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn up.

Those who show pity and are always ready to help during times of trouble are seldom the same ones who rejoice in our joy: when others are happy they have nothing to do, they become superfluous and lose their feeling of superiority, and so they easily show their displeasure.

There is an innocence in lying which is the sign of good faith in a cause.

There is no pre-established harmony between the furtherance of truth and the well-being of mankind.

Subordination to morality can be slavish or vain or self- interested or resigned or gloomily enthusiastic or thoughtless or an act of despair, just as subordination to a prince can be: in itself it is nothing moral.

Take a chance and try my fare! It will grow on you, I swear; Soon it will taste good to you!

In our own presence, we all pretend to be simpler than we are: thus we take a break from our fellow human beings.