Those who love, friends and lovers, know that love is not only a blinding flash, but also a long and painful struggle in the darkness for the realization of definitive recognition and reconciliation.

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.

What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly.

Absurd- that is the light mind that establishes its own borders.

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.

Moreover, most people, assuming they had not altogether abandoned religious observances, or did not combine them naively with a thoroughly immoral way of living, had replace normal religious practice by more or less extravagant superstitions.

Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.