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

The world is the house of the strong.

The enjoyment of freedom which could be exercised without any motivation would be the real hallmark of a maniac.

Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones.

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.

He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.

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