Put away your gods and come and worship ours, or we will kill you and your gods!

From a hundred rabbits you can't make a horse.

And if there's love, you can do without happiness too. Even with sorrow, life is sweet.

Granted I am a babbler, a harmless vexatious babbler, like all of us. But what is to be done if the direct and sole vocation of every intelligent man is babble, that is, the intentional pouring of water through a sieve?

You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.

Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.

When reason fails, the devil helps!