I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.

We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like.

I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.

The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends.

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings

Tact consists in knowing how far to go too far