I know nothing more mocking than a devil that despairs.
Who are you then?" "I am part of that power which eternally wills evil and eternally works good.
The important thing is not to know more than all men, but to know more at each moment than any particular man.
Painting and tattooing the body is a return to animalism.
The miller imagines that the corn grows only to make his mill turn.
No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.