Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful.

The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion.

In order to get as much fame as one's father one has to much more able than he.

Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to me: 'My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.' This stranger is a theologian.

My ideas are my whores.

You can be sure that a painter reveals himself in his work as much as and more than a writer does in his.

The world is the house of the strong. I shall not know until the end what I have lost or won in this place, in this vast gambling den where I have spent more than sixty years, dice box in hand, shaking the dice.