Integrity needs no rules.
Death means nothing to men like me. It's the event that proves them right.
Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine.
To live is in itself a value judgment. To breathe is to judge.
But what does it mean, the plague? It's life, that's all.
What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation.