The abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise.
The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
I have never produced anything good except by a long succession of slight efforts.
Other people's appetites easily appear excessive when one doesn't share them.
Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.