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

Though a revolution may call itself "national," it always marks the victory of a single party.

I do not love men: I love what devours them.

The individual never asserts himself more than when he forgets himself.

Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death

Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it; doubt all, but do not doubt yourself.