It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

You see, Mademoiselle, I have experience, I know the world. To pass the time, why don't you ask every passenger to tell you his life's story? And if there is a single one among them who has never cursed his life, who has not often told himself that he was the unhappiest of men, then you may throw me overboard, headfirst!

Opinion is called the queen of the world; it is so, for when reason opposes it, it is condemned to death. It must rise twenty times from its ashes to gradually drive away the usurper.

If there’s life on other planets, then the earth is the Universe’s insane asylum.

We’re neither pure, nor wise, nor good; we do the best we know.

It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.

There is no such thing as an accident. What we call by that name is the effect of some cause which we do not see.