The devotion of the greatest is to encounter risk and danger, and play dice for death.

No one dies of fatal truths nowadays: there are too many antidotes.

When I contemplated purpose I also contemplated chance and foolishness.

The rights which a man arrogates to himself are relative to the duties which he sets himself, and to the tasks which he feels capable of performing.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

The most unendurable thing, to be sure, the really terrible thing, would be a life without habits, a life which continually required improvisation.

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.