The vain.- We are like shop windows in which we are continually arranging, concealing or illuminating the supposed qualities other ascribe to us - in order to deceive ourselves.

To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both - a philosopher.

All parties attempt to represent important things that have developed outside themselves as unimportant, and where they fail in this they assail those things all the more bitterly the more admirable they are.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.

Three metamorphoses of the spirit I relate to you: how the spirit becomes a camel; and the camel, a lion; and the lion, finally, a child.

The inability to lie is far from the love of truth.