It may be said that his wit shines at the expense of his memory.

The soul is that which denies the body. For example, that which refuses to run when the body trembles, to strike when the body is angry, to drink when the body is thirsty.

Would you like to be a brilliant conversationalist? Just give your natural enthusiasm free reign and say whatever comes into your head. Your rashness will be taken for extraordinary courage.

I am quite my own master, agreeably lodged, perfectly easy in my circumstances. I am contented with my situation, and happy because I think myself so.

The pleasure of talking is the inextinguishable passion of a woman, coeval with the act of breathing.

Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.

Evil tongues never want a whet.

Isocrates was in the right to insinuate, in his elegant Greek expression, that what is got over the Devil's back is spent under his belly.

On peut dire que son esprit brille aux dépens de sa mémoire (One may say that his wit shines by the help of his memory).

Mutual content is like a river, which must have its banks on either side.

A flatterer can risk everything with great personages.

People believe in God because they don't have any other explanation for things that happen.

Moderation. Small helpings. Sample a little bit of everything. These are the secrets of happiness and good health.

A genius is a genius, regardless of the number of morons who belong to the same race - and a moron is a moron, regardless of the number of geniuses who share his racial origin.

I have to remind myself to breathe -- almost to remind my heart to beat!

All my cousins steal things. Theyre just a bunch of thieves. My whole family is like that. You put something down for a second, and they steal it. You never see it again.

Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave.

I think that all my albums are different enough where I don't feel like I did this the last time.

There are no bonds so strong as those which are formed by suffering together

Where shame is, there is also fear.

The actor creates with his own flesh and blood all those things which all the arts try in some way to describe.