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.

We are born dead, and we are becoming more and more contented with our condition. We are acquiring the taste for it.

But what are years, what are months!" he would exclaim. "Why count the days, when even one day is enough for man to know all happiness.

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

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

There is nothing more alluring to man than freedom of conscience, but neither is there anything more agonizing.

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.