Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.

It is only the poor who are forbidden to beg.

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.

Without the Utopians of other times, men would still live in caves, miserable and naked. It was Utopians who traced the lines of the first City.....Out of generous dreams come beneficial realities. Utopia is the principle of all progress, and the essay into a better future.

Until you have loved an animal, part of your soul will have remained dormant.

We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best.

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