The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw, one would have to take to pieces an entire universe. A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble.

Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices.

Nothing exists except by virtue of a disequilibrium, an injustice. All existence is a theft paid for by other existences; no life flowers except on a cemetery.

Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.

Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live

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

Modesty is the delicate form of hypocrisy.