The inability to lie is far from the love of truth.

All mankind is divided, as it was at all times and is still, into slaves and freemen.

Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.

Perhaps man will rise ever higher as soon as he ceases to flow out into a god.

We fear our neighbor's hostile mood because we are afraid that this mood will lead him to penetrate our secrets.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

Never to read another book that was born and baptized (with ink) at the same time.