He who thinks himself wise, O heavens! is a great fool.

The public is a ferocious beast - one must either chain it up or flee from it.

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

The way to be a bore is to say everything.

"Be yourself; everybody else is already taken."

I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.