“I know of only one serious thing on this earth, the growing of grapes.”

“What can be feared when one is doing one's duty? I know the rage of my enemies. I know all their slanders; but when one only tries to do good to men and when one does not offend heaven, one can fear nothing, neither during life nor after death.”

“I hate women because they always know where things are.”

“It is best one should quote what one doesn't understand at all in the language one knows the least”

“The only reward to be expected from the cultivation of literature is contempt if one fails and and hatred if one succeeds.”

“Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.”

“We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one”