It is very noble hypocrisy not to talk of one's self.

A married philosopher belongs to comedy.

The humanity of famous intellectuals lies in being wrong with gracious courtesy when dealing with those who are not famous.

I want to know whether you are a person devoted to creating or to exchanging in some respect or other: as a creator you belong tothe free, as an exchanger you are their slave and instrument.

Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.

Again and again I am brought up against it, and again and again I resist it: I don't want to believe it, even though it is almost palpable: the vast majority lack an intellectual conscience; indeed, it often seems to me that to demand such a thing is to be in the most populous cities as solitary as in the desert.

Pity makes suffering contagious.