Alone, even doing nothing, you do not waste your time. You do, almost always, in company. No encounter with yourself can be altogether sterile: Something necessarily emerges, even if only the hope of some day meeting yourself again.

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.

Tyrants are always assassinated too late. That is their great excuse.

So long as man is protected by madness - he functions - and flourishes.

To have committed every crime but that of being a father.

Normal people have nothing to forget.

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