Since man's highest mission on earth is to spiritualize everything, it is his excrement in particular that needs it most.

Young people need plenty of difficulties to achieve something.... If you receive a little money for this, a little money for that, everything becomes mediocre, and collapses ignominiously.

Geniuses must never die, the progress of mankind depends on us

Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams.

Right now I'm the greatest. I don't say this through vanity. It's just that the rest are so bad.

Democratic governments are not suited to the publication of the thunderous revelations I am in the habit of making. The unpublished parts will appear later... when Europe will have restored its traditional monarchies.

Life is too short to remain unnoticed