Good books are irrefutable, and bad books refute themselves.

Two elements are needed to form a truth - a fact and an abstraction

Women still remember the first kiss after men have forgotten the last.

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.

Money is the sign of liberty. To curse money is to curse liberty- to curse life, which is nothing, if it be not free.

Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him.

To write well, to have style ... is to paint. The master faculty of style is therefore the visual memory. If a writer does not see what he describes-countrysides and figures, movements and gestures-how could he have a style, that is originality?