The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.

Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls.

The refutation of suicide: is it not inelegant to abandon a world which has so willingly put itself at the service of our melancholy?

Try to be free: you will die of hunger.

The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster.

Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of saving himself by hell than by paradise.

If you lack the power to demoralize yourself along with the age, to go as low and as far, do not complain of being misunderstood by it.