“A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it.”

“The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.”

“Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.”

“For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.”

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”

“What a silly thing love is! It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything and it is always telling one things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true.”

“Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.”