When we stand the truth on its head we generally fail to notice that our head is not standing where it should be standing either.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die.

After all, what would be "beautiful" if the contradiction had not first become conscious of itself, if the ugly had not first said to itself: "I am ugly"?.

The great advantage in noble parentage is that enables one to endure poverty more easily.

We have art so that we shall not die of reality.

The most fundamental form of human stupidity is forgetting what we were trying to do in the first place.