The man is placed where the Earth ends, the woman, where the heaven starts.

I refuse the oration of all churches. I ask a prayer of all souls. I believe in God.

God has bestowed two gifts on man: hope and ignorance. Ignorance is the better of the two.

The most excellent symbol of the people is the paving stone. One walks on it until it falls on one's head.

In saying no to progress, it is not the future which they condemn, but themselves. They give themselves a melancholy disease; they inoculate themselves with the past. There is but one way of refusing tomorrow, that is to die.

You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.

I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.