You know, a man always judges himself by the balance he can strike between the needs of his body and the demands of his mind. You're judging yourself now, Mersaut, and you don't like the sentence.

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

I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

Humans are creatures, who spent their lifes trying to convince themselves, that their existence is not absurd

The laws of nature may be operative up to a certain limit, beyond which they turn against themselves to give birth to the absurd.

Rule: Start by looking for what is valid in every man.