If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them.

I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

Life is a toy made of glass; it appears to be of inestimable price, but in reality it is very cheap.

Nature without exercise is a seed shut up in a pod, and art without practice is nothing.

The best thing for a man to do is to be born and, being born, to die at once.

With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of a courtesan; it may be so, but I have the heart of a King. I live free, I enjoy myself, I can call myself happy.

We are the buffoons of our children.