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.

There are two things a real man likes - danger and play; and he likes woman because she is the most dangerous of play things.

I go in solitude, so as not to drink out of everybody's cistern. When I am among the many I live as the many do, and I do not think I really think; after a time it always seems as if they want to banish myself from myself and rob me of my soul.

Curiosity creeps into the houses of the unfortunate and the needy under the name of duty or of pity.

The value of a man can only be measured with regard to other men.

The higher culture an individual attains, the less field there is left for mockery and scorn.

All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?