Yes, life is a woman!

I call a lie: wanting not to see something one does see, wanting not to see something as one sees it... The most common lie is the lie one tells to oneself; lying to others is relatively the exception.

The greatest events-they are not our loudest but our stillest hours.

Christianity is called the religion of pity.

A refined soul is distressed to know that someone owes it thanks; a crude soul, to know that it owes someone thanks.

Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.

Whoever wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue: then others can imitate and yet at the same time surpass the one they imitate-which human beings love to do.