"It is depressing to hear the unfortunate or dying man jest."

"When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if…"

"That can not possibly be, because it could never possibly be."

"Eyes—the head’s chief of police. They watch and make mental notes. A blind person is like a city abandoned by the aut…"

"We live not in order to eat, but in order not to know what we feel like eating."

"Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf."

"If only one tooth aches, rejoice that not all of them ache.... If your wife betrays you, be glad that she betrayed on…"

"Love is a scandal of the personal sort."

"Once you’ve married, be strict but just with your wife, don’t allow her to forget herself, and when a misunderstandin…"

"Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it."