As evening approached, I came down from the heights of the island, and I liked then to go and sit on the shingle in some secluded spot by the lake; there the noise of the waves and the movement of the water, taking hold of my senses and driving all other agitation from my soul, would plunge me into delicious reverie in which night often stole upon me unawares.

Once you teach people to say what they do not understand, it is easy enough to get them to say anything you like.

The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.

I have never believed that man's freedom consisted in doing what he wants, but rather in never doing what he does not want to do.

She was dull, unattractive, couldn't tell the time, count money or tie her own shoe laces... But I loved her

A person who can break wind is not dead.

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.