To make ourselves invisible to creditors or to the envious, and even to our own worries, we can take advantage here on earth of a great democratic institution-in fact, democracy's only success-the night.

Born enemies don't fight. Nations you would say were designed to go to war against each other by their skins, their language, their smell; always jealous of each other, always hating each other; they're not the ones who fight. You will find the real antagonists in nations fate has groomed and made ready for the same war.

Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?

The man who discovers a woman's weakness is like the huntsman in the heat of the day who finds a cool spring. He wallows in it.

Human beings are like timid punctuation marks sprinkled among the incomprehensible sentences of life.

Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.

One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace.