I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.

I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.

Language is a very difficult thing to put into words.

Alas...I too have known love, that ruler of hearts, that soul of our soul: it's never brought me anything except one kiss and twenty kicks in the rump. How could such a beautiful cause produce such an abominable effect on you?

I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?

A historian has many duties... the first is not to slander; the second is not to bore

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.