A woman occasionally is quite a serviceable substitute for masturbation.

Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.

Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.

Nationalism is the love which ties me to the blockheads of my country, to the insultors of my way of life, and to the desecrators of my language.

Many talents preserve their precociousness right into old age.

Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautiful by this embrace.

A white lie is always pardonable. But he who tells the truth without compulsion merits no leniency.