He who doesn't have the spirit of his time, has all its misery.

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

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

The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

And ask each passenger to tell his story, and if there is one of them all who has not cursed his existence many times, and said to himself over and over again that he was the most miserable of men, I give you permission to throw me head-first into the sea.

Learn to cultivate your own garden.