We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.

Yes, I can understand that a man might go to a gambling table when he sees that all that lies between him and death is his last crown.

Nothing can afford a woman greater pleasure than to hear tender words of love. The strictest, most devout woman will listen even if she must not answer.

Neither the passions not justice nor politics nor the great social forces ever consider the victims they strike.

Friendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other.

The future of a nation lies in the hands of mothers.

Isn't it really quite extraordinary to see that, since man took his first step, no one has asked himself why he walks, how he walks, if he has ever walked, if he could walk better, what he achieves in walking .. questions that are tied to all the philosophical, psychological, and political systems which preoccupy the world.