The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.

Without music, life would be a mistake.