The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed in two ways: by a change of life or by a change of conscience.

The best thoughts most often come in the morning after waking, while still in bed or while walking.

The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.

One must put oneself in every one's position. To understand everything is to forgive everything.

Man is meant for happiness and this happiness is in him, in the satisfaction of the daily needs of his existence.

If people lacked the capacity to receive the thoughts of the men who preceded them and to pass on to others their own thoughts, men would be like wild beasts. And if men lacked this other capacity of being infected by art, people would be almost more savage still, and, above all, more separated from and more hostile to one another. Therefore the activity of art is a most important one, as important as the activity of speech itself and as generally diffused.

Happy people have no history.