It's immoral to steal, but you can take things.

Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does.

Country acquaintances are charming only in the country and only in the summer. In the city in winter they lose half of their appeal.

The bourgeoisie is very fond of so-called practical types and novels with happy endings, since they soothe it with the idea that one can both accumulate capital and preserve innocence, be a beast and at the same time be happy...

Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.