History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.

To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter another.

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.

Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.

It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.

Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.

Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.