A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

The most intelligent men, like the strongest, find their happiness where others would find only disaster: in the labyrinth, in being hard with themselves and with others, in effort; their delight is self-mastery; in them asceticism becomes second nature, a necessity, as instinct.

Those who show pity and are always ready to help during times of trouble are seldom the same ones who rejoice in our joy: when others are happy they have nothing to do, they become superfluous and lose their feeling of superiority, and so they easily show their displeasure.

I hate who steals my solitude, without really offer me in exchange company.

All things that are truly great are at first thought impossible.

My philosophy is inverted Platonism: the further a thing is from true being, the purer, the lovelier, the better it is. Living inillusion as a goal!

When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life.