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Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
Doctors are just the same as lawyers the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.
Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.
To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.
The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.
Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.
There is nothing new in art except talent.