Men are angels born without wings, nothing could be nicer than to be born without wings and to make them grow.

The painter paints, the musician makes music, the novelist writes novels. But I believe that we all have some influence, not because of the fact that one is an artist, but because we are citizens.

Your questions are false if you already know the answer.

The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write. At four o'clock in the morning, when the promise of a new day still lingered over French lands, he got up from his pallet and left for the fields, taking to pasture the half-dozen pigs whose fertility nourished him and his wife.

Oh, I'm not just going too far, I've arrived.

But truths need to be repeated many times so that they don't, poor things, lapse into oblivion.

In a king, modesty would be a sign of weakness.