To avoid each other, their eyes had developed an amazing mobility with all the cunning of enemies fearful of meeting each other head on.

A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.

Whether we are describing a king, an assassin, a thief, an honest man, a prostitute, a nun, a young girl, or a stallholder in a market, it is always ourselves that we are describing.

Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.

We breathe, sleep, drink, eat, work and then die! The end of life is death. What do you long for? Love? A few kisses and you will be powerless. Money? What for? To gratify your desires. Glory? What coems after it all? Death! Death alone is certain.

We are accustomed to use our eyes only with the memory of what other people before us have thought about the object we are looking at.

Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.