You explain nothing, O poet, but thanks to you all things become explicable.

It is fortunate that diplomats have long noses since they usually cannot see beyond them.

Open your eyes! The world is still intact; it is as pristine as it was on the first day, as fresh as milk!

When man tries to imagine Paradise on earth, the immediate result is a very respectable Hell.

Now I know that at the heart of the universe is joy.

Gentlemen, in the little moment that remains to us between the crisis and the catastrophe, we may as well drink a glass of Champagne.

Time: all things consume it, love alone makes use of it.