Nature: a place where birds fly around uncooked

Those whom the gods love grow young.

I have pleasures, and passions, but the joy of life is gone. I am going under: the morgue yawns for me. I go and look at my zinc-bed there. After all, I had a wonderful life, which is, I fear, over.

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

The best revenge is to live well.

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them.