“The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.”

Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.

The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.

A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it. Skepticism is the first step toward truth.

My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.

It has been said that love robs those who have it of their wit, and gives it to those who have none.

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?

Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.

Give assistance, and receive thanks lighter than a feather: injure a man, and his wrath will be like lead.

The fire in your bones, will fuel the light in your heart that will make flowers bloom from your soul.

The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

What we see in history is not a transformation

It’s one of the most beautiful places on this planet.

Of the good things given between man and man, I say that a neighbor, true and loving in heart, to neighbor is a joy beyond all things else.

Is it just me or do the stars shine brighter when we are beneath them.