Comte de Saint-Germain

I have no past, and I have no future, for I am always in the present moment.

No, Madame, but I myself was living in Venice at the end of the last and the beginning of this century. I had the honor to pay you court then, and you were kind enough to admire a little Barcarolle of my composing.

That, Madame, is not impossible!

An army must inevitably consist of the scum of the people and all those for which society has no use.

Q. Understanding God as Love, why did God individualize Himself? A. In order to have something to love. Q. Why were the Rays divided? A. In order to express Love.

I am able to melt diamonds and produce a single large one from several small ones.

I make it a rule never to touch either a woman or a card.

Sometimes I amuse myself not by making people believe, but by letting them believe, that I have lived in the most remote ages.

I possess a process by which I can remove flaws from diamonds.

I am not a Frenchman, nor an Englishman, nor a German; I am a cosmopolitan.

The art of making gold is the easiest thing in the world, but it is not for everyone.

I have known Solomon; he was a poor philosopher.

I never eat in public; my food is prepared by my own servants.

I have a secret for removing wrinkles and restoring the vigor of youth.

I am as old as the world, but I appear young.

I am a man who dies not, and who knows all.

I am not born, I do not die.

I was in Chaldea, in Persia, in Africa, in Europe, and I know all languages.

I know the secret of the philosopher's stone.

I possess the secret of eternal youth.