One completely overcomes only what one assimilates.

It is often so: the harder it is to hear, the more a truth is worth saying.

Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.

If one could recover the uncompromising spirit of one's youth, one's greatest indignation would be for what one has become.

It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not deserve to live; before killing other good, decent fellows like himself, his gun would fall from his hands.

Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.

Each thought becomes an anxiety in my brain. I am becoming the ugliest of all things: a busy man.