“Evil is done without effort. It is natural and the working of fate. Good is always the product of an art.”

    “Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation”

    “The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find”. 

    “The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated”. 

    “We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose”.

    “Champagne, with its amber hue, its éclat, its sparkle and its perfume, arouses the senses and produces a cheerfullness which flashes through the company like a spark of electricity. At the magic word "Champagne", the guests, dull and torpid with good feeling,awake at once. This lively, ethereal and charming beverage sets in motion the spirits of all; the phlegmatic, the grave and the philosophic are surprised to find themselves amiable; in the wink of an eye (or the pop of a cork) the whole banquet has changed its physiognomy”.

     Charles Baudelaire