“Alexander created cities everywhere he passed: I have left dreams everywhere I have trailed my life.”

“Brothers in one great family, children lose their common features only when they lose their innocence, which is the same everywhere. Then the passions, modified by climate, government and customs, differentiate the nations; the human race ceases to speak and hear the same language: society is the true tower of Babel.”

“Every man carries within himself a world made up of all that he has seen and loved; and it is to this world that he returns, incessantly, though he may pass through and seem to inhabit a world quite foreign to it.”

“The original writer is not he who refrains from imitating others, but he who can be imitated by none.”

“An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.”

“You are not superior just because you see the world in an odious light.”

“Il n'est qu'un bien, c'est le tendre plaisir.Quelle immortalité vaut une nuit heureuse ?Pour tes baisers je vendrais l'avenir.”