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

One must, in one’s life, make a choice between boredom and suffering.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It’s a palliative. The remedy is death.

No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.

The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.

History should be written as philosophy.

It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.

If you aren’t rich you should always look useful.

There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.

Have you noticed with inflexible necessity of the me to insert itself between the sol which precedes it and the sol which follows it.

If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him.

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

My life is a struggle.

Society therefore is an ancient as the world.

The English are crooked as a nation and honest as individuals. The contrary is true of the French, who are honest as a nation and crooked as individuals.

Les personnages de nos autres vies sont des fantômes que la littérature fait revivre.

Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.

The best is the enemy of the good.

In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

The secret of being a bore… is to tell everything.

Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man’s power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.

Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it; otherwise it will return to the attack more furious than ever.

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.

Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.

Ice-cream is exquisite – what a pity it isn’t illegal.

It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.

The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live.

One can’t relive one’s life. Forgiveness is not what’s difficult; one’s always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that’s obvious.

Society is composed of two great classes those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

You see many stars at night in the sky but find them not when the sun rises; can you say that there are no stars in the heaven of day? So, O man! because you...

Tears are the silent language of grief.

Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.

The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society.

Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female – whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

A witty saying proves nothing.

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

Everything is for the best in this best of possible worlds.

The superfluous, a very necessary thing.

Speech happens to not be his language.

Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.

In the summertime, we do a lot of video work. With that, I can show them if their head is moving too far or if the ball position or alignment isn’t right.