True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.

I came to Paris with four écus in my pocket, and I’d have fought with anybody who told me I was in no condition to buy the Louvre.

It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.

Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy’s misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred.

You who weep for pleasures fled, While dragging on a life of care, All your woes will melt in air, If to god your tears are shed, You who Weap!

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

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy