If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.

Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.

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.

When I think of all the books still left for me to read, I am certain of further happiness.

Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you.

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

To have a horror of the bourgeois is bourgeois.