Being a Parisian is not about being born in Paris, it is about being reborn there.
Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.
Faults of ignorance are excusable only where the ignorance itself is so
Find someone to love . . . and, oh, someone to love you.
A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.
What probably distorts everything in life is that one is convinced that one is speaking the truth because one says what one thinks.