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

The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead

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

If money does not make you happy, give it back

Style is to forget all styles.

Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.

We are ignorant of the Beyond because this ignorance is the condition of our own life. Just as ice cannot know fire except by melting and vanishing.