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.

There is only one science, love, one riches, love, only one policy, love. To make love is all the law and the prophets.

The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.

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.

For every monarchy overthrown the sky becomes less brilliant, because it loses a star. A republic is ugliness set free.

Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.

What we call happiness is what we do not know.