We must cultivate our own garden.

God prefers bad verses recited with a pure heart to the finest verses chanted by the wicked.

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

The only reward to be expected from literature is contempt if one fails and hatred if one succeeds.

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.

Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one's garden.