One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.

That man has missed something who has never left a brothel at sunrise feeling like throwing himself into the river out of pure disgust.

Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but is ungrateful!

Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.

Emma was no asleep, she was pretending to be asleep; and, while he was dozing off at her side, she lay awake, dreaming other dreams.

Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion.