"Men have always need of god! A god to defend them against other men."

"A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone."

"Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent."

"The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous."

"Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth."

"My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back."

"God invented concubinage, satan marriage."

"Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery."

"My arse contemplates those who talk behind my back."

"Good taste is as tiring as good company."

"If you want to have clean ideas, change them as often as your shirt."

"Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death."

"Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place."

"The essence of a man is found in his faults."

"A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself."

"Let us never forget that the greatest man is never more than an animal disguised as a god."

"The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns."