What strangely enchanted tunes gush forth during those sleepless nights!

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.

Knowledge, having irritated and stimulated our appetite for power, will lead us inexorably to our ruin.

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

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

At this very moment, I am suffering—as we say in French, j’ai mal. This event, crucial for me, is nonexistent, even inconceivable for anyone else, for everyone else. Except for God, if that word can have a meaning.

For you who no longer possess it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.