What is irritating about love is that it is a crime that requires an accomplice.

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.

The Devil's best ruse is to persuade us that he does not exist.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

It is the hour to be drunken! To escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunken. On wine, on poetry or on virtue, as you wish.

Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses.

It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

Anyone, provided that he can be amusing, has the right to talk to himself.

Life is a hospital where every patient is dominated by a wish to change his bed. One would prefer to suffer near the fire, and another feels sure he would get well if he were near the window.

What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offence.