Little privations are easily endured when the heart is better treated than the body..

It is not the criminal things which are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and shameful..

The universe was born restless and has never since been still..

The principal problem I had during the five years I ran the Caisse - and I bet you that it will be the same problem for my successor - is the retenti….

Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see..

We are the two great painters of this era; you are in the Egyptian style, I in themodern style. (to Pablo Picasso).

Luxury... corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness..

If it is reason that forms man then it is the emotions that guide her..

It is often said that my heart is too open for my own good..

The more humanity owes the poor man, the more society denies him..

Nature's instructions are always slow; those of men are generally premature..

It is not I that am drawing, it is this thing at the end of my hand..

I cannot now change my style, which I acquired, as you can imagine, by dint of labour..

If a king tries to start a war, a mother should go to him and forbid it..

Hatred as well as love, renders its votaries credulous..

I have always believed that good is only beauty put into practice..

When I go out into the countryside and see the sun and the green and everything flowering, I say to myself "Yes indeed, all that belongs to me!".

The happiest is he who suffers the least pain; the most miserable, he who enjoys the least pleasure..

Politeness requires this thing; decorum that; ceremony has its forms, and fashion its laws, and these must always follow, never the promptings of our….

Cities are the sinks of the human race..

The passage from the state of nature to the civil state produces a very remarkable change in man, by substituting justice for instinct in his conduct..