The less I understand life, the more I live it!

We are in the world to laugh. In purgatory or in hell we shall no longer be able to do so. And in heaven it would not be proper.

if I were to begin my life again, I should want it as it was. I would only open my eyes a little more.

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

It astounds us to come upon other egoists, as though we alone had the right to be selfish, and to be filled with eagerness to live.

The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.

It is in the midst of the city that one writes the most inspiring pages about the country.