Give me the provisions and whole apparatus of a kitchen, and I would starve.

We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade; our life, like the harmony of the world, is composed of contrary things, and one part is no less necessary than the other.

If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.

Getting married is very much like going to a restaurant with friends. You order what you want then when you see what the other person has, you wish you had ordered that.

To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.

Who ever saw a doctor use the prescription of his colleague without cutting out or adding something?

We are nothing but ceremony; ceremony carries us away, and we leave the substance of things; we hang on to the branches and abandon the trunk and body.