The woman who loves always smells good.

Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live

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.

Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor of capital and against labor. Any mechanical invention whatsoever has been more harmful to humanity than a century of war.

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

We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence.

Man, in spite of his tendency towards mendacity, has a great respect for what he calls the truth. Truth is his staff in his voyage through life; commonplaces are the bread in his bag and the wine in his jug.