I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity.

They mistake the first manifestations of a developing sexual nature for the voice of God calling them to Himself; and it is precisely when nature is inciting them that they embrace a fashion of life contrary to nature's wish.

You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.

If your little savage were left to himself and be allowed to retain all his ignorance, he would in time join the infant's reasoning to the grown man's passion, he would strangle his father and sleep with his mother.

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. 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.

Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence.