He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

Oh great star! What would your happiness be if you did not have us to shine for?

love as a passion—it is our European specialty—must absolutely be of noble origin; as is well known, its invention is due to the Provencal poet-cavaliers, those brilliant, ingenious men of the "gai saber," to whom Europe owes so much, and almost owes itself.

The code of Manu differs from the bible. By means of it the nobles, the philosophers, and the warriors keep the whip hand over the majority. It is full of noble valuations; it shows a feeling of perfection, an acceptance of life, and triumphant feeling toward self and life.

And as long as you are in any way ashamed before yourself, you do not yet belong with us.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

The most fundamental form of human stupidity is forgetting what we were trying to do in the first place.