Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never.

If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to human destiny, I am optimistic as to man.

Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.

Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of the world.

There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.

Absolute justice is achieved by the suppression of all contradiction, therefore it destroys freedom.

From Pandora's Box, where all the ills of humanity swarmed, the Greeks drew out hope after all the others, as the most dreadful of all. I know no more stirring symbol; for, contrary to the general belief, hope equals resignation. And to live is not to resign oneself.