One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

Impoliteness is frequently the sign of an awkward modesty that loses its head when surprised and hopes to conceal this with rudeness.

What is the vanity of the vainest man compared with the vanity which the most modest possesses when, in the midst of nature and the world, he feels himself to be man!

Body am I entirely, and nothing else; and soul is only a word for something about the body.

Many deeds are done so as to forget another deed: there are also opiate activities. I exist so that another will be forgotten.

What was a lie in the father becomes a conviction in the son.

Scholars who become politicians are usually assigned the comic role of having to be the good conscience of state policy.