No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

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

A woman does not want the truth; what is truth to women? From the beginning, nothing has been more alien, repugnant, and hostile to woman than the truth - her great art is the lie, her highest concern is mere appearance and beauty.

My solitude doesn’t depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.

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.

The criminal is quite frequently not equal to his deed: he belittles and slanders it.

Society tames the wolf into a dog. And man is the most domesticated animal of all.