For the majority of people, though they do not know what to do with this life, long for another that shall have no end.

What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.

Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.

The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.

I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.

Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.

I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

Silence is the wit of fools.