To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.

The man who spends all his time looking up to heaven is not always the best; in fact, he is usually the worst.

The most original sin is not the thinker's but the poet's.

Life is a dangerous adventure, says the American, and he is half right: life is dangerous, but it's not an adventure.

To be young is to live in the hope of escaping youth; to be old, in the despair of having succeeded.

Man is a question; woman is an answer. The mistake women make today is to offer themselves as answers before being questioned.

Morality measured in centimeters: all mothers believe that only their daughters dance decently.