When you stare into an abyss for a long time, the abyss also stares into you.

I believe only in French culture and consider everything in Europe that calls itself 'culture' a misunderstanding, not to speak of German culture.

The criminal type is the type of the strong human being under unfavorable circumstances: a strong human being made sick.

If virtue goes to sleep, it will be more vigorous when it awakes.

Free will without fate is no more conceivable than spirit without matter, good without evil.

When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life.

A nation usually renews its youth on a political sick-bed, and there finds again the spirit which it had gradually lost in seeking and maintaining power.