When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.

I don’t regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does. There was no pleasure I did not experience.

How does one cure the soul? Through the senses

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Finding the meaning of life is easy. Simply get a dictionary, go to the 'L' section, and find the word 'life.'

How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver.

The man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets that she took him.