Master and Doctor are my titles; for ten years now, without repose, I held my erudite recitals and led my pupils by the nose.

People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities.

He is a man whom it is impossible to please, because he is never pleased with himself.

As man is, so is his God. And thus is God oft strangely odd.

The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy.

Great passions are incurable diseases.

What right those who govern have to govern they don't question, they just govern. Whether the people have a right to depose them that doesn't concern them. All they are concerned with is that the people will not be tempted to depose them.