Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.

A single sentence will suffice for modern man. He fornicated and read the papers. After that vigorous definition, the subject will be, if I may say so, exhausted.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

To stay or to go, it amounted to the same thing.

I cling like a miser to the freedom that disappears as soon as there is an excess of things.

Beware of those who say: "I know this too well to be able to express it." For if they cannot do so, this is because they don't know it or because out of laziness they stopped at the outer crust.

When one has no character, one HAS to apply a method. Here it did wonders incontrovertibly, and I am living on the site of one of the greatest crimes in human history.