An old philosopher said to Monsieur Coignard, a Reverend Father: 'You are a pig!' To which Abad Coignard answered: 'You flatter me, sir. But unfortunately, I'm only a man.'
Chance is the pseudonym God uses when He'd rather not sign His own name.
Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.
We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
A tale without love is like beef without mustard: insipid.
We live between two dense clouds; the forgetting of what was and the uncertainty of what will be.
To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.
What we call happiness is what we do not know.
Good angels are fallible ... they sin every day and fall from Heaven like flies.
We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best.
If it were absolutely necessary to choose, I would rather be guilty of an immoral act than of a cruel one.
Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.
People who don't count won't count.
It is not customary to love what one has.
For the majority of people , though they do not know what to do with this life , long for another that shall have no end .
Suffering... We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Our passions are ourselves.
Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.
God, conquered, will become Satan; Satan, conquering, will become God. May the fates spare me this terrible lot; I love the Hell which formed my genius. I love the Earth where I have done some good, if it be possible to do any good in this fearful world where beings live but by rapine.
What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself.
In every well-governed state wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing.
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