The earth is a great piece of stupidity.

A day will come when all nations on our continent will form a European brotherhood... A day will come when we shall see... the United States of America and the United States of Europe face to face, reaching out for each other across the seas.

Sacrificing the earth for paradise is giving up the substance for the shadow.

It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.

Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.

One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'

Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their visit is sad; later on, it is ominous.