Nothing is more disgusting than the majority: because it consists of a few powerful predecessors, of rogues who adapt themselves, of weak who assimilate themselves, and the masses who imitate without knowing at all what they want.

The dangers of life are infinite, and among them is safety.

The highest happiness, the purest joys of life, wear out at last.

One must be something to be able to do something.

Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.

If ever the Divine appeared on earth, it was in the person of Christ.

All sects seem to me to be right in what they assert, and wrong in what they deny.