There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.

Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.

The belief that becomes truth for me... is that which allows me the best use of my strength, the best means of putting my virtues into action.

Chastity more rarely follows fear, or a resolution, or a vow, than it is the mere effect of lack of appetite and, sometimes even, of distaste.

It is the special quality of love not to be able to remain stationary, to be obliged to increase under pain of diminishing.

It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.

Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which is so rare that it is scarcely found except in the greatest, or in beggars.