Imaginary pains are by far the most real we suffer, since we feel a constant need for them and invent them because there is no way of doing without them.

All philosophers should end their days at Pythia's feet. There is only one philosophy, that of unique moments.

Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.

What I know at sixty, I knew as well at twenty. Forty years of a long, superfluous, labor of verification.

Let us not be needlessly bitter: certain failures are sometimes fruitful.

A regret understood by no one: the regret to be a pessimist. It’s not easy to be on the wrong foot with life.

No matter which way we go, it is no better than any other. It is all the same whether you achieve something or not, have faith or not, just as it is all the same whether you cry or remain silent.