When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.

The famous physician Dumoulin said when dying, 'I leave two great physicians behind me, simple food and pure water.'

Inspiration: A peculiar effect of divine flatulence emitted by the Holy Spirit which hisses into the ears of a few chosen of God.

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.

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.