God, conquered, will become Satan; Satan, conquering, will become God. May the fates spare me this terrible lot; I love the Hell which formed my geni….

The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything..

You think you are dying for your country; you die for the industrialists..

Chance is the pseudonym God uses when He'd rather not sign His own name..

We thank God for having created this world, and praise Him for having made another, quite different one, where the wrongs of this one are corrected..

Time deals gently only with those who take it gently..

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live..

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom..

There is a certain impertinence in allowing oneself to be burned for an opinion..

It is by acts, and not by ideas, that people ensure the bar down the street cannot have a patio..

The power of love itself weakens and gradually becomes lost with age, like all the other energies of man..

Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin..

If it were absolutely necessary to choose, I would rather be guilty of an immoral act than of a cruel one..

The impotence of God is infinite..

Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue..

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. [The ability to focus on positives and distract your mind from negatives for at least ….

We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent..

The Future is hidden even from those who are forging it..

It is remarkable how great an influence our clothes have on our moral state..

It is by believing in roses that you make them bloom..

Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal..