The Pure Soul Is A Pure Lie.

As A Result, Nature Is Something Entirely Different From What Comes To Mind When We Invoke Its Name.

Horrible Experiences Lead Us To Wonder Whether The Person Who Experiences Them Might Not Be Something Horrible.

No More Fiction, For Now We Calculate; But That We May Calculate, We Had To Make Fiction First.

When A Man Is In Love He Endures More Than At Other Times; He Submits To Everything.

Not Contentment, But More Power; Not Peace At Any Price, But War; Not Virtue, But Efficiency (virtue In The Renaissance Sense, Virtu , Virtue Free Of Moral Acid).