My friend, the truth is always implausible, did you know that? To make the truth more plausible, it's absolutely necessary to mix a bit of falsehood with it. People have always done so.

Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born.

So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship.

Let it not be a beautiful face,' I thought, 'but to make up for that, let it be a noble, an expressive, and, above all, an extremely intelligent one.

A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Schoolboys are a merciless race, individually they are angels, but together, especially in schools, they are often merciless.

If it were considered desirable to destroy a human being, the only thing necessary would be to give his work a character of uselessness