Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.

Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.

My body and my will are one.

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.

Time is that in which all things pass away.

No one can transcend their own individuality.

It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.