The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.

Everyone should study at least enough philosophy and belles-lettres to make his sexual experience more delectable.

A book which, above all others in the world, should be forbidden, is a catalogue of forbidden books.

We have to believe that everything has a cause, as the spider spins its web in order to catch flies. But it does this before it knows there are such things as flies.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year.

To make astute people believe one is what one is not is, in most cases, harder than actually to become what one wishes to appear.

The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.