It is not enough to prove something, one also has to seduce or elevate people to it. That is why the man of knowledge should learns how to speak his wisdom: and often in such a way that it sounds like folly!

Human life is inexplicable, and still without meaning: a fool may decide its fate.

That roguish and cheerful vice, politeness.

One must renounce the bad taste of wishing to agree with many people.

He who has always spared himself much will in the end become sickly of so much consideration. Praised be what hardens!

A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.

All that the world most needs today, is combined in the most seductive manner in his art, — the three great stimulants of exhausted people: brutality, artificiality and innocence (idiocy).