When I go out into the countryside and see the sun and the green and everything flowering, I say to myself "Yes indeed, all that belongs to me!"

We are the two great painters of this era; you are in the Egyptian style, I in themodern style. (to Pablo Picasso)

Luxury... corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.

Hatred as well as love, renders its votaries credulous.

Cities are the sinks of the human race.

If it is reason that forms man then it is the emotions that guide her.

When I go out into the countryside and see the sun and the green and everything flowering, I say to myself "Yes indeed, all that belongs to me!"