Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream not only plan, but also believe.
The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.
I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best.
An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.
That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.
It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.
To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.
Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.
Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.