Lovers should guard their strangeness. If they forgive too much, all slides into confusion and meanness.
Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.
Let us interrogate the great apparition, that shines so peacefully around us.
Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.
I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me.
The unbelief of the age is attested by the loud condemnation of trifles.