So much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have some bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts.

We’ll go where the air is pure, where all sounds are soothing, where, no matter how proud one may be, one feels humble and finds oneself small- in short, we’ll go to the sea. I love the sea as one loves a mistress and I long for her when I haven’t seen her for some time

The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.

So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: 'Perhaps!

It was like the eve of a battle; the hearts beat, the eyes laughed, and they felft that the life they were perhaps going to lose, was after all, a good thing.

Now I'd like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!

Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.