In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death... these are things that unite us all.

What's natural is the microbe. All the rest-heath, integrity, purity (if you like)-is a product of the human will, of a vigilance that must never falter. The good man, the man who infects hardly anyone, is the man who has the fewest lapses of attention.

False judges are held up in the world's admiration and I alone know the true ones.

There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.

The danger of lectures is that they create the illusion of teaching for teachers, and the illusion of learning for learners.

They came to know the incorrigible sorrow of all prisoners and exiles, which is to live in company with a memory that serves no purpose.

If the world were clear, art would not exist.