Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.
There exist only three respectable beings: the priest, the warrior, the poet. To know, to kill, and to create.
The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.
God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn't even need to exist.
This life is a hospital in which each patient is obsessed with the desire to change beds.
The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.
Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.
It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.
The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he didn't exist.
