I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.

The revolutionary government was required to become the government of the war.

People believe a man is in distress because his loved one dies in one day. But his real pain is less futile: it is that he finds out that sadness too does not last. Even pain has no meaning.

I understood, by dint of digging into my memories, that modesty helped me to shine, humility helped me to triumph and virtue to oppress.

It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the end of our errors. Childish presumption which justifies the fact that child-nations, inheriting our follies, are now directing our history.

The principles which men give to themselves end by overwhelming their noblest intentions.