Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

If the world were clear, art would not exist.

The look of success, when it is worn a certain way, would infuriate a jackass.

Thus each of us had to be content to live only for the day, alone under the vast indifference of the sky.

You know, [women] do not really condemn any weakness: rather, they try to humiliate or disarm our strengths. That is why women arethe reward, not of the warrior, but of the criminal.

Freedom of the press is perhaps the freedom that has suffered the most from the gradual degradation of the idea of liberty.

He was expressing his certainty that my appeal would be granted, but I was carrying the burden of a sin from which I had to free myself. According to him, human justice was nothing and divine justice was everything. I pointed out it was the former that had condemned me.