How little is required for pleasure! The sound of a bagpipe - without music, life would be an error.

The universe without music would be madness.

Do not allow yourselves to be deceived: Great Minds are Skeptical.

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

The Great Man... is colder, harder, less hesitating, and without fear of 'opinion'; he lacks the virtues that accompany respect and 'respectability,' and altogether everything that is the 'virtue of the herd.' If he cannot lead, he goes alone... He knows he is incommunicable: he finds it tasteless to be familiar... When not speaking to himself, he wears a mask. There is a solitude within him that is inaccessible to praise or blame.

In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering among innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge.

Christianity, alcohol the two great means of corruption.