If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take hashish.

as though "the Truth" were such an innocent and incompetent creature as to require protectors!

Death. The certain prospect of death could sweeten every life with a precious and fragrant drop of levity- and now you strange apothecary souls have turned it into an ill-tasting drop of poison that makes the whole of life repulsive.

Comparing man and woman on the whole, one may say: woman would not possess a genius for ornamentation if she did not also possessan instinct for the secondary role.

That which an age considers evil is usually an unseasonable echo of what was formerly considered good - the atavism of an old ideal.

Once upon a time, in some out of the way corner of that universe which is dispersed into numberless twinkling solar systems, there was a star upon which clever beasts invented knowing.

What someone is, begins to be revealed when his talent abates, when he stops showing us what he can do.