If only we could see in advance all the harm that can come from the good we think we are doing.

Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart.

Each of us when he appears before his fellows is clothed in a certain dignity. But every man knows what unconfessable things pass within the secrecy of his own heart.

Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

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

As soon as one is born, one starts dying.

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