A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning of that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end.

Ce que je sais de la morale, c'est au football que je le dois. (I know of morality, it is football that I owe.)

To remain a man in today's world, one must have not only unfailing energy and unwavering intensity, one must also have a little luck.

We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us seriously.

We all have a weakness for beauty.

When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.