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

History is a pack of lies we play on the dead.

We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one.

All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

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

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

A man loved by a beautiful woman will always get out of trouble.