To study in Paris is to be born in Paris!

The man who fights against his own country is never a hero.

Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres.

Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.

When we are at the end of life, to die means to go away; when we are at the beginning, to go away means to die.

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure that they are atheists; it is with them only a question of definition, and in any case, if they do not believe in God, being great minds, they prove God.