Honore de Balzac

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

In big science, the role of the individual scientist must be carefully preserved. So is the one of original ideas and of contributions.

Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.

When you pick up a novel from the bed side table, you put down your own life at the same time and you become another person for the duration.