That's the way man is, cher monsieur. He has two faces: he can't love without self-love.

Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and this is its whole secret.

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.

But it's not easy. I've been thinking it over for years. While we loved each other we didn't need words to make ourselves understood. But people don't love forever. A time came when I should have found the words to keep her with me, only I couldn't.

Liberty is the right not to lie.

It is not true that the heart wears out - but the body creates this illusion.

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