Every living body continuously eliminates feces, it rejects what is not serviceable to the assimilating organism: what man despises, what arouses his disgust, what he calls evil, are excrements.

One can also be undignified and flattering toward a virtue.

I call a lie: wanting not to see something one does see, wanting not to see something as one sees it... The most common lie is the lie one tells to oneself; lying to others is relatively the exception.

What is Genius?- To aspire to a lofty aim and to will the means to that aim.

He who possesses greatness is cruel towards his secondary virtues and considerations.

The surest aid in combating the male's disease of self-contempt is to be loved by a clever woman.

The wheel and the brake have different duties, but also one in common: to hurt one another.