Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation, it cannot be classified as an illness.

Intolerance of groups is often, strangely enough, exhibited more strongly against small differences than against fundamental ones.

Where such men love they have no desire and where they desire they cannot love

Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us.

One must not be mean with affections; what is spent of the funds is renewed in the spending itself. Left untouched for too long, they diminish imperceptibly or the lock gets rusty; they are there all right but one cannot make use of them.

It is always possible to bind together a considerable number of people in love, so long as there are other people left over to receive the manifestations of their aggressiveness.

A string of reproaches against other people leads one to suspect the existence of a string of self-reproaches with the same content.