We labour at our daily work more ardently and thoughtlessly than is necessary to sustain our life because it is even more necessary not to have leisure to stop and think. Haste is universal because everyone is in flight from himself.

Our destiny rules over us, even when we are not yet aware of it; it is the future that makes laws for our today.

One must separate from anything that forces one to repeat No again and again.

We count the courtesies accorded us by unpopular people as offenses.

He who denies his own vanity usually possesses it in so brutal a form that he instinctively shuts his eyes to avoid the necessity of despising himself.

There are two things a real man likes - danger and play; and he likes woman because she is the most dangerous of play things.

Most thinkers write badly, because they communicate not only their thoughts, but also the thinking of them.