God will bless you,' said he, 'you are an angel since you take care of the flowers.' 'No,' she replied. 'I am the devil, but that's all the same to me.

Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.

Everything Changes. The only thing that remains immovable across the centuries and fixes the character of a people is cooking.

Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.

To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. To live without sin is the dream of an angel. Everything terrestrial is subject to sin. Sin is a gravitation.

The soul in the darkness sins, but the real sinner is he who caused the darkness.

Men hate those to whom they have to lie.