We criticize a thinker more acutely when he advances a proposition that is disagreeable to us; and yet it would be more reasonableto do so when his proposition is agreeable to us.

Men are even lazier than they are timorous, and what they fear most is the troubles with which any unconditional honesty and nudity would burden them.

When a man is ill his very goodness is sickly.

You must be born for your physician, otherwise you are bound to perish because of your physician.

Only idiots fail to contradict themselves three times a day.

Marriage: that I call the will of two to create the one who is more than those who created it.

At present I am light, now I fly, now I see myself below me, now a god dances through me.