The absurd is lucid reason noting its limits.

There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note every day that integrity has no need of rules

To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.

The act of love . . . is a confession. Selfishness screams aloud, vanity shows off, or else true generosity reveals itself.

... it is true that I do not respect [human life] more than I respect my own life. And if it is easy for me to kill, that is because it is difficult for me to die.

There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.

stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves