Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.

Family life is an encroachment on private life.

Heinrich Heine so loosened the corsets of the German language that today every little salesman can fondle her breasts.

What are all the orgies of Bacchus when compared to the intoxication of someone who completely surrenders to continence!

I can say with pride that I have spent days and nights not reading anything, and that with unflagging energy I use every moment toacquire gradually an encyclopedic lack of education.

How unreliable is the woman caught being faithful! Today she is faithful to you, tomorrow to another.

One's need for loneliness is not satisfied if one sits at a table alone. There must be empty chairs as well.