Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art.

When our brain feels too weak to deal with our opponent's objections, our heart answers by casting suspicion on their underlying motives.

Partial knowledge is more triumphant than complete knowledge; it takes things to be simpler than they are, and so makes its theory more popular and convincing.

Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.

Sensuality often makes love grow too quickly, so that the root remains weak and is easy to pull out.

Laughter means: taking a mischievous delight in someone else's uneasiness, but with a good conscience.

A degree of culture, and assuredly a very high one, is attained when man rises above superstitions and religious notions and fears, and, for instance, no longer believes in guardian angels or in original sin, and has also ceased to talk of the salvation of his soul.