If you want to make people laugh, your face must remain serious.

I will begin with this confession: whatever I have done in the course of my life, whether it be good or evil, has been done freely; I am a free agent.

The philosopher is a person who refuses no pleasures which do not produce greater sorrows, and who knows how to create new ones.

From that moment our love became sad, and sadness is a disease which gives the death-blow to affection.

If you have not done things worthy of being written about, at least write things worthy of being read.

In fact, to gull a fool seems to me an exploit worthy of a witty man.

Nobody can deprive me of the fact that I had a good time.