Not to be cowardly when it comes to our own actions! Not to leave them in the lurch!--The sting of conscience is indecent.

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

You must climb above yourself-up and beyond, until you have even your stars under you.

Jealous is every virtue of the others, and a dreadful thing is jealousy. Even virtues may succumb by jealousy.

What we do is never understood, but always merely praised or blamed.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Go through the towns and ask yourselves whether these people should reproduce! Let them go to their whores!