There are no elements so diverse that they cannot be joined in the heart of a man.

Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

I believe in the gods. Or rather I believe that I believe in the gods. But I don't believe that they are great brooding presences watching over us; I believe they are completely absent-minded.

The privilege of the great is to see catastrophes from a terrace.

In war-time a man is called a hero. It doesn't make him any braver, and he runs for his life. But at least it's a hero who is running away.

I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.

Falsehood is the jockey of misfortune.

Half the human race can change its name and sometimes its nation without suffering-at least half! All women!

The man who discovers a woman's weakness is like the huntsman in the heat of the day who finds a cool spring. He wallows in it.