A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time..

In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day..

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something..

I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell..

When I was young I pitied the old. Now old, it is the young I pity..

Marriage simplifies life and complicates the day..

Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable..

There are big and little truths, but all belong to the same race..

Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble. That was the e….

We give others praise which we ourselves don't believe, as long as they respond with praise we can believe..

On the brink of being satiated, desire still appears infinite..

I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under their own glance..

Kill one man, and you are murderer..

In art as in life the valid sacrifices are those that bring no income..

A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely ….

The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God..

There are some persons we could not cut down to size without diminishing ourselves as well..

Hatred, for the man who is not engaged in it, is a little like the odor of garlic for one who hasn't eaten any..

We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be..

On tue un homme, on est un assassin. On tue des millions d'hommes, on est un conquérant. On les tue tous, on est un dieu. Kill a man, and you are an….

Being right is less important to us than the freedom to be wrong..