What are all the orgies of Bacchus when compared to the intoxication of someone who completely surrenders to continence!
A comprehensive education is a well-stocked pharmacy: but we have no assurance that potassium cyanide will not be administered fora head cold.
A man’s jealousy is a social institution; a woman’s prostitution is an instinct.
What the teachers digest, the pupils eat.
I knew a man who carried his education in his vest pocket because there was more room there than in his head.
When I take up my pen, nothing can happen to me. Fate, remember that.
A school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on non-alcoholic wine.
I am not for women but against men.
Humanity is the washerwoman of society that wrings out its dirty laundry in tears.
To be human is erroneous.
Psychology is as useless as directions for using poison.
Psychology is a bus that accompanies an airplane.
Christianity has enriched the erotic meal with the appetizer of curiosity and spoiled it with the dessert of remorse.
If something is stolen from you, don’t go to the police. They’re not interested. Don’t go to a psychologist either, because he’s interested in only one thing: that it was really you who did the stealing.
Today’s literature: prescriptions written by patients.
A bibliophile has approximately the same relationship to literature as a philatelist to geography.
If you wish to form a clear judgment on your friends, consult your dreams.
The blind won’t admit that I have eyes in my head, and the deaf say that I’m dumb.
Sorrento, August. For two weeks now I haven’t heard a German word or understood an Italian one. This way one can manage to live with people; everything goes like clockwork and no irksome misunderstanding can arise.
I master only the language of others. Mine does with me what it wants.