Only the mediocre are always at their best.

Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?

When a grown man reaches forty, we change him for an old one. He has completely disappeared. There's only the most superficial resemblance between the two of them. Nothing is handed on from one to the other.

Only a mediocre person is always at his best

As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum.

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is the example of the external seductiveness of life.