We thank God for having created this world, and praise Him for having made another, quite different one, where the wrongs of this one are corrected.

I am a physician. I keep a drug-shop of lies. I give relief, consolation. Can one console and relieve without lying? ... Only women and doctors know how necessary and how helpful lies are to men.

All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.

Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.

The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.

It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.

Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.