What do you do from morning to night?" "I endure myself.

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.

We cannot consent to be judged by someone who has suffered less than ourselves. And since each of us regards himself as an unrecognized Job.

A civilization begins to decline the moment Life becomes its sole obsession.

What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?

What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?

The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.