Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

If we have injured someone, giving him the opportunity to make a joke about us is often enough to provide him personal satisfaction, or even to win his good will.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

It was Christianity, with its heartfelt resentment against life, that first made something unclean of sexuality: it threw filth on the origin, on the essential fact of our life.

Become who you are!

What, then is truth?... Truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are.

Modern science has as its object as little pain as possible, as long a life as possible - hence a sort of eternal blessedness, but of a very limited kind in comparison with the promises of religion.