There is no more futile punishment than futile and hopeless labor.

One must place one's principles in big things. For the small, graciousness will suffice.

The entire history of mankind is, in any case, nothing but a prolonged fight to the death for the conquest of universal prestige and absolute power.

Liberty is the right not to lie.

In truth, I was so good at being a man, with such plenitude and simplicity, that I thought I was something of a superman.

If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it.

What gives value to travel is fear. It is a fact that, at a certain moment, when we are so far from our own country, we are seized by a vague fear and an instinctive desire to go back to the protection of old habits. I look upon it more as an occasion for testing.