Man can have only a certain number of teeth, hair and ideas; there comes a time when he necessarily loses his teeth, hair and ideas.

I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.

The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.

If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.

May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.

Men fed upon carnage, and drinking strong drinks, have all an impoisoned and acrid blood which drives them mad in a hundred different ways.

Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.