Beauty is boring because it is predictable.

The beauty of the universe consists not only of unity in variety, but also of variety in unity.

the first quality of an honest man is contempt for religion, which would have us afraid of the most natural thing in the world, which is death; and would have us hate the one beautiful thing destiny has given us, which is life.

We like lists because we don't want to die.

Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.

After so many years even the fire of passion dies, and with it what was believed the light of the truth. Who of us is able to say now whether Hector or Achilles was right, Agamemnon or Priam, when they fought over the beauty of a woman who is now dust and ashes?