It is regrettable that, among the Rights of Man, the right of contradicting oneself has been forgotten.

Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.

My dear brothers, never forget, when you hear the progress of enlightenment vaunted, that the devil's best trick is to persuade you that he doesn't exist!

Within the bottle's depths, the wine's soul sang one night. Drink wine, drink poetry, drink virtue.

Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves.

But the true voyagers are only those who leave Just to be leaving; hearts light, like balloons, They never turn aside from their fatality And without knowing why they always say: "Let's go!

It's the devil who pulls the strings that make us dance