A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.

Bad people are to be found everywhere, but even among the worst there may be something good.

Civilization merely develops man's capacity for a greater variety of sensations, and ... absolutely nothing else.

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.

I tell you solemnly, that I have many times tried to become an insect. But I was not equal even to that. I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness — a real thorough-going illness.

I cannot understand why the world is arranged as it is.