A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb.

What is pity but the vice of kindness.

Were we to undertake an exhaustive self-scrutiny, disgust would paralyze us, we would be doomed to a thankless existence.

Every profound dissatisfaction is of a religious nature: our failures derive from our incapacity to conceive of paradise and to aspire to it, as our discomforts from the fragility of our relations with the absolute.

In most cases we attach ourselves to in order to take revenge on life, to punish it, to signify we can do without it, that we have found something better, and we also attach ourselves to God in horror of men.

Tolerance cannot seduce the young.

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