Wine is the benevolent god, who gives back gaiety to men and restores youth to the old.

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.

To begin depriving death of its greatest advantage over us, let us adopt a way clean contrary to that common one; let us deprive death of its strangeness, let us frequent it, let us get used to it; let us have nothing more often in mind than death... We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere." "To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.

I speak to the paper, as I speak to the first person I meet.

It is not a mind, it is not a body that we educate, but it is a man, and we must not make two parts of him.

There is nothing in which a horse's power is better revealed than in a neat, clean stop.

A man should keep for himself a little back shop, all his own, quite unadulterated, in which he establishes his true freedom and chief place of seclusion and solitude.