A healthy man is content with a woman. An erotic man is content with a stocking to get to a woman. A sick man is content with thestocking.

Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.

I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear.

To be human is erroneous.

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

When a culture feels that its end has come, it sends for a priest.

There is a cultural taste which tries very hard to get rid of the lice in a fur coat. There is another which tolerates the lice and thinks the coat can be worn with them in it. And finally there is a taste which regards the lice as the most important thing about the coat and consequently places the coat at the lice's disposal.