The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.

To die for an idea is to set a rather high price upon conjecture.

We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best.

Suffering... We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices; and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice.

There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.

Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.