You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

A sub-clerk in the post-office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them.

…there's no question of heroism in all this. It's a matter of common decency. That's an idea which may make some people smile, but the only means of fighting a plague is - common decency.

You know very well that I no longer think. I am far too intelligent for that.

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

The harshest winter finds an invincible summer in us.

Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.