The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

If people were meant to be nude, they would have been born this way.

The truth about the life of a man is not what he does, but the legend which he creates around himself.

To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving.