The true masters of the art of living are already happy..

Our entire life, with our fine moral code and our precious freedom, consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are..

We have found other terms far less vague than the old ones to designate the same complaints. It's a great advance linguistically..

Each of us has a day .. when he has to accept, finally, the fact that he is a man..

Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be conquerors. If they only knew that it's enough to b….

Inspiration? - a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance..

Everything ends this way in France — everything. Weddings, christenings, duels, burials, swindlings, diplomatic affairs — everything is a pretext for….

Have you noticed that life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers?.

In matters of money there's no such thing as enough..

Saintliness is also a temptation..

Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it..

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid..

The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it..

Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God..

God is on everyone's side... and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies..

I don't want people to love me. It makes for obligations..

When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you..

Nothing is irreparable in politics..

Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law..

We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down..

Death is beautiful. It alone gives love its true habitat..