A single sentence will suffice for modern man. He fornicated and read the papers. After that vigorous definition, the subject will be, if I may say so, exhausted.

If one could only say just once: 'this is clear', all would be saved

The words that reverberate for us at the confines of this long adventure of rebellion are not formulas for optimism, for which we have no possible use in the extremities of our unhappiness, but words of courage and intelligence which, on the shores of the eternal seas, even have the qualities of virtue.

The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.

Those who prefer their principles over their happiness, they refuse to be happy outside the conditions they seem to have attached to their happiness.

To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.