The philosopher who would fain extinguish his passions resembles the chemist who would like to let his furnace go out.

It is when their age of passions is past that great men produce their masterpieces, just as it is after volcanic eruptions that the soil is most fertile.

Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Tis easier to make certain things legal than to make them legitimate.

Life is a malady in which sleep soothes us every sixteen hours; it is a palliation; death is the remedy.

Love is like epidemic diseases. The more one fears it the more likely one is to contract it.

It is passion that makes man live; wisdom makes one only last.