"Nature has made me unique. If I am not better than others, at least I am different."

"The greatest evils that befall man come from man himself."

"I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices."

"Nature has made me different from all other men. I alone know my heart, and I alone know men. He who dares to say that he is like me is a liar."

"I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about."