If you must take care that your opinions do not differ in the least from those of the person with whom you are talking, you might just as well be alone.

In everything, no matter what it may be, uniformity is undesirable. Leaving something incomplete makes it interesting, and gives one the feeling that there is room for growth

Even members of the nobility, let alone persons of no consequence, would do well not to have children.

Ambition never comes to an end.

The true criminal must be defined as a man who commits a crime though he is as decently fed and clothed as others.

You should never put the new antlers of a deer to your nose and smell them. They have little insects that crawl into the nose and devour the brain.

Blossoms are scattered by the wind and the wind cares nothing but the blossoms of the heart no wind can touch.