There is only a perspective seeing, only a perspective 'knowing'; and the more affects we allow to speak about one thing, the more eyes, different eyes, we can use to observe one thing, the more complete will our 'concept' of this thing, our 'objectivity,' be.

The purpose of punishment is to improve those who do the punishing--that is the final recourse of those who support punishment.

A life without music is an error.

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

Do not be deceived! The busiest people harbor the greatest weariness, their restlessness is weakness--they no longer have the capacity for waiting and idleness.

Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.

The love of indulgence is rooted in the depths of a man's heart. His soul would prefer to share the excessive and unrestrained; but his soul cannot love.