The only proper intoxication is conversation.
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.
With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?
It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.
Well, I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life.