“The mosquito knows full well that he is small, he is a beast of prey”

“We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.”

“To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives”

“Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength”

“Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams”

“Vision without action is a daydream. Action without a vision is a nightmare.”