Understanding is the beginning of approving.

I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices.

Money cannot buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable. Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

The loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness? Nothing, except what prepares and then what destroys it.

We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.

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

A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly