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

To know what everyone knows is to know nothing.

Art includes everything which stimulates the desire to live; science includes everything which sharpens the desire to know. Art, even the most disinterested, the most disembodied, is the auxiliary of life.

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

Art is the accomplice of love.

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

Man is the inventor of stupidity.