"Insanity in individuals is something rare – but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule."

"Woman was God's second mistake."

"We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once."

"But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!"

"To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. There is yet a third case: one must be both — a philosopher."