There are two kinds of writers, those who are and those who aren’t. With the first, content and form belong together like soul and body; with the second, they match each other like body and clothes.
What do people have against convicts? Is living together in the pen of freedom, where young people engage in mutual psychology, any more beautiful?
Many women would like to dream with men without sleeping with them. Someone should point out to them that this is utterly impossible.
A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand.
Children today laugh at fathers who tell them about dragons. It is necessary to make fear a required subject; otherwise children will never learn it.
I can say with pride that I have spent days and nights not reading anything, and that with unflagging energy I use every moment toacquire gradually an encyclopedic lack of education.
What are all the orgies of Bacchus when compared to the intoxication of someone who completely surrenders to continence!
Humanity and bestiality: when will the former finally be uttered with the flavor of hate and the latter with the flavor of love? Does a lion tear his fellow lion to pieces?
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.