Or renounce life altogether! Accept fate obediently as it is, once and for all, and stifle everything in myself, renouncing any right to act, to live, to love.

Only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.

There is no idea, no fact, which could not be vulgarized and presented in a ludicrous light.

There is nothing easier than lopping off heads and nothing harder than developing ideas.

Even as I approach the gambling hall, as soon as I hear, two rooms away, the jingle of money poured out on the table, I almost go into convulsions.

Love the animals. God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Don't trouble it, don't harass them, don't deprive them of their happiness, don't work against God's intent.

Above all, do not lie to yourself.