Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.

If wine were to disappear from human production, I believe it would cause an absence, a failure in health and intellect, a void much more terrifying than all the recesses and the deviations for which wine is regarded as responsible.

The taste for pleasure attaches us to the present. The concern with our salvation leaves us hanging on the future.

Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.

Forest, I fear you! In my ruined heart your roaring wakens the same agony as in cathedrals when the organ moans and from the depths I hear that I am damned.

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

It is the greatest art of the devil to convince us he does not exist.