
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

It is not strength but the duration of great sentiments that makes great men.

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Art is the proper task of life.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.