Our vanity desires that what we do best should be considered what is hardest for us.

Having a talent is not enough: one must also have your permission to have it--right, my friends?

The preponderance of pain over pleasure is the cause of our fictitious morality and religion.

In being wildly natural we recover best from being unnatural, from being spiritual.

The priest knows, as every one knows, that there is no longer any "God," or any "sinner," or any "Saviour" that "free will" and the "moral order of the world" are lies : serious reflection, the profound self conquest of the spirit, allow no man to pretend that he does not know it.

He who possesseth little is so much the less possessed. Blessed be moderate poverty!

One never perishes through anybody but oneself.