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

Desires are but pain and torment, and enjoyment is sweet because it delivers us from them.

Cheating is a sin, but honest cunning is simply prudence. It is a virtue. To be sure, it has a likeness to roguery, but that cannot be helped. He who has not learned to practice it is a fool.

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

I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools.

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

God ceases to be God only for those who can admit the possibility of His non-existence, and that conception is in itself the most severe punishment they can suffer.