One is not converted to christianity; one must be morbid enough for it.

Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests.

What makes us heroic?--Confronting simultaneously our supreme suffering and our supreme hope.

Brave people may be persuaded to an action by representing it as being more dangerous than it really is.

One is proud to worship when he cannot be an idol.

It is the business of the very few to be independent; it is a privilege of the strong.

Do I advise you to love the neighbor? I suggest rather to escape from the neighbor and to love those who are the farthest away from you. Higher than the love for the neighbor is the love for the man who is distant and has still to come.