“The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.”

Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.

One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.

Jacques said that his master said that everything good or evil we encounter here below was written on high.

The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion.

I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.

It is raining bombs on the house of the Lord. I go in fear and trembling lest one of these terrible bombers gets into difficulties.

Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.

All children are essentially criminal.

If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.

To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him.

Does anyone really know where they’re going to?

Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one’s innocence with the loss of one’s prejudices.

The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.

And his hands would plait the priest’s entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.

The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.

There is only one duty; that is to be happy.