One can lie with the mouth, but with the accompanying grimace one nevertheless tells the truth.
A thing can only live through a pious illusion.
Egoism is the law of perspective applied to feelings: what is closest appears large and weighty, and as one moves farther away size and weight decrease.
Every step forward is made at the cost of mental and physical pain to someone.
Only as an aesthetic product can the world be justified to all eternity.
When one thinks profusely and cleverly, not only his face but his body too takes on a clever appearance.