Assuming that we have trained our imagination to denounce the past, we will not suffer much from unfulfilled wishes.

Marriage marks the end of many short follies - being one long stupidity.

Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.

Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.

A degree of culture, and assuredly a very high one, is attained when man rises above superstitions and religious notions and fears, and, for instance, no longer believes in guardian angels or in original sin, and has also ceased to talk of the salvation of his soul.

The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.

The greatest giver of alms is cowardice.