The mind has no sex.

We must love stupid people better than ourselves; are they not the really unfortunate ones of this world? Do not people without taste and without ideal grow constantly weary, rejoicing in nothing, and being quite useless here below?

Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.

You don't have to write to me if you don't feel like it. There's no real friendship without absolute freedom.

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

we do not die of anguish, we live on. We continue to suffer. We drink the cup drop by drop.

[Failure is hard initially because] One knows what one has lost, but not what one may find [and learn from that failure]!