You're an Attorney. It's your duty to lie, conceal, and distort everything, and slander everybody.

A man's name, title, and rank are artificial and impermanent; they do nothing to reveal what he really is, even to himself.

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

In times of death and famine, reason is on the side of the priests-who have their own kind of logic which cries for miracles and, on occasion, invents them.

Everyone always dies for his country. If you have lived in it, well and wisely and actively, you die for it too.

Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.

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.