There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between.

Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

People have played on words and pretended to believe that refusing to grant a meaning to life necessarily leads to declaring that it is not worth living. In truth, there is no necessary common measure between these two judgments.

To feel absolutely right is the beginning of the end.

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

Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose a future.