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

Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an impostor.

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

If you're unlucky enough not to have alcoholic parents, it takes you a whole lifetime of intoxication to overcome the dead weight of their virtues.

God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.

Every word affords me pain. Yet how sweet it would be if I could hear what the flowers have to say about death!

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