For the butterfly, mating and propagation involve the sacrifice of life, for the human being, the sacrifice of beauty.

Thus one can observe that those who proclaim piety as their goal and purpose usually turn into hypocrites.

The soul is indestructible and its activity will continue through eternity. It is like the sun, which, to our eyes, seems to set at night; but it has in reality only gone to diffuse its light elsewhere.

The best genius is that which absorbs and assimilates everything without doing the least violence to its fundamental destiny.

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.