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Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.

To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady.

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.