Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices.

Demons are like obedient dogs; they come when they are called.

If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be -not understood, but divined.

An imbecile is never bored: he contemplates himself.

In order to understand life it is not only necessary not to be indifferent to men, but not to be indifferent to flocks, to trees. One should be indifferent to nothing.

Women are the simple, and poets the superior, artisans of language... the intervention of grammarians is almost always bad.

Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices.