To succeed you must add water to your wine, until there is no more wine.

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.

Clarity is the politeness of the man of letters.

Let us stay at home: there we are decent. Let us not go out: our defects wait for us at the door, like flies.

Talent is like money; you don't have to have some to talk about it.

There are no friends; only moments of friendship.

The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.