The past is the best prophet of the future.

Is it not enough that 'things are cruel and blind'? Must we also be cruel and blind?

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed

If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.

It would please me best if, at the last, a marble stone shall record that this Queen having lived such and such a time, lived and died a virgin.

Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

What goes up must come down.

Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.

Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.

I'm never going to be disabled. I'm sick of being so healthy.

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

Time is the best killer.

If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

The more I see, the less I know for sure.

Old age is by nature rather talkative.

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.