Equality lies only in human moral dignity. ... Let there be brothers first, then there will be brotherhood, and only then will there be a fair sharing of goods among brothers.

On our earth we can only love withsuffering and through suffering.

Loving someone is different from being in love with someone. You can hate someone you're in love with

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.

Hell is the inability to love.

Every man looks out for himself, and he has the happiest life who manages to hoodwink himself best of all.

The whole work of man really seems to consist in nothing but proving to himself every minute that he is a man and not a piano key.