It has been said that love robs those who have it of their wit, and gives it to those who have none.

All children are essentially criminal.

When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.

Only the bad man is alone.

If the weather is too cold or rainy, I take shelter in the Regence Cafe, where I entertain myself by watching chess being played. Paris is the world center, and this cafe is the Paris centre for the finest skill at this game.

The first promise exchanged by two beings of flesh was at the foot of a rock that was crumbling into dust; they took as witness for their constancy a sky that is not the same for a single instant; everything changed in them and around them, and they believed their hearts free of vicissitudes. O children! always children!

What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.