I summed up all systems in a phrase, and all existence in an epigram.

The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought and sold and bartered away.

Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.

I should have remembered that when one is going to lead an entirely new life, one requires regular and wholesome meals.

Love! What is love? It's nothing. It's just a word. It doesn't exist. Only pleasure is important.

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.

Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a fat missionary.