The anxiety we have for the figure we cut, for our personage, is constantly cropping out. We are showing off and are often more concerned with making a display than with living. Whoever feels observed observes himself.

Clear and precise ideas are the most dangerous, for one does not dare to change them.

The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.

A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned

Each of us really understands in others only those feelings he is capable of producing himself.

There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.

The true return to nature is the definitive return to the elements-death.