Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.
Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.
Science had better not free the minds of men too much, before it has tamed their instincts.
Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become.
On the brink of being satiated, desire still appears infinite.
Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind.