It is no tragedy to do ungrateful people favors, but it is unbearable to be indebted to a scoundrel.

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.

When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.

Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.

Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.

Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.

There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage.

Against the rules. She's on it, like a hound on a fox.'Her name is Annie.

Be generous with yourtime and energy. The harderit is to give, the morethe other person deserves it.

It becomes the urgent duty of mathematicians, therefore, to meditate about the essence of mathematics, its motivations and goals and the ideas that must bind divergent interests together.

What man is there of you whom if his son ask bread will he give him a stone?

Among God's creatures two, the dog and the guitar, have taken all the sizes and all the shapes, in order not to be separated from the man.

We would be better off thinking of nature as a tiger than as a docile and compliant automaton that can never threaten our survival.

There's nothing you could really avoid about giving yourself to somebody who ultimately rejects you. That's just life.

Finding permanent and universal causes for misfortune is the practice of despair.

The best causes tend to attract to their support the worst arguments, which seems to be equally true in the intellectual and in the moral sense.

The imperfect is our paradise.