It is because we are all impostors that we endure each other. The man who does not consent to lie will see the earth shrink under his feet: we are biologically obliged to the false

What every man who loves his country hopes for in his inmost heart: the suppression of half his compatriots.

When every man has realized that his birth is a defeat, existence, endurable at last, will seem like the day after a surrender, like the relief and the repose of the conquered.

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires.

Good health is the best weapon against religion. Healthy bodies and healthy minds have never been shaken by religious fears.

Paradise was unendurable, otherwise the first man would have adapted to it; this world is no less so, since here we regret paradise or anticipate another one. What to do? Where to go? Do nothing and go nowhere, easy enough.