Some things are more precious because they don't last long.

To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life.

I don't want to earn a living. I want to live.

I wanted to eat of the fruit of all the trees in the garden of the world… And so, indeed, I went out, and so I lived. My only mistake was that I confined myself so exclusively to the trees of what seemed to me the sun-lit side of the garden, and shunned the other side for its shadow and its gloom.

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them.

I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have never done anything worth remembering.