We go to great pains to alter life for the happiness of our descendants and our descendants will say as usual: things used to be so much better, life today is worse than it used to be.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.

A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.

He always seemed to women different from what he was, and they loved in him not himself, but the man created by their imagination, whom they had been eagerly seeking all their lives; and afterwards, when they noticed their mistake, they loved him all the same.

Is it our job to judge? The gendarme, policemen and bureaucrats have been especially prepared by fate for that job. Our job is towrite, and only to write.

Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.