Life is little more than a loan shark: It exacts a very high rate of interest for the few pleasures it concedes

When you say you are in love with humanity, you are well satisfied with yourself.

Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!

Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time.

When [man] is happy he takes his happiness as it comes and doesn't analyze it, just as if happiness were his right.

Life is a very sad piece of buffoonery, because we have .. the need to fool ourselves continuously by the spontaneous creation of a reality .. which, from time to time, reveals itself to be vain and illusory.

All I'm saying is that you should show some respect for what other people see with their eyes and feel with their fingers, even though it be the exact opposite.