Ma vie est une énigme dont ton nom est le mot. (My life is an enigma, of which your name is the word.)

I'd like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention by somebody I don't know. It doesn't last, and it's good for nothing. You break your neck simply living.

The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.

Sire, you are looking at a plain man, and I am looking at a great man. Each of us may benefit.

Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.

Joy is the reflex of terror.