But do you understand, I cry to him, do you understand that if you have the guillotine in the forefront, and with such glee, it's for the sole reason that cutting heads off is the easiest thing, and having an idea is difficult!

There is not a thing that is more positive than bread.

But people will laugh at all sorts of things.

I've long stopped worrying about who invented whom - God man or man God.

It is necessary that every man have at least somewhere to go. For there are times when one absolutely must go at least somewhere!

If man has one good memory to go by, that may be enough to save him.

By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.