Extraordinarily excessive sensuality it may be .. but it all comes down to the same thing in the end, and one means is surely as good as another, since the end obtained is always the same. In any case the exceptional, endlessly repeated, is no different than the banal; and unceasing recapitulation can add nothing, in the end, to the sum of experience. I am weary and hopeless three times the dupe. Why have you trained me in the shame of abominable sins?

Modesty is the delicate form of hypocrisy.

The pleasure of being a scoundrel can be adequately savored in silence.

God is not all that exists. God is all that does not exist.

Good books are irrefutable, and bad books refute themselves.

Art includes everything which stimulates the desire to live; science includes everything which sharpens the desire to know. Art, even the most disinterested, the most disembodied, is the auxiliary of life.

Money is the sign of liberty. To curse money is to curse liberty- to curse life, which is nothing, if it be not free.