We find it easy to believe that praise is sincere: why should anyone lie in telling us the truth?

Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.

Far too often the choices reality proposes are such as to take away one's taste for choosing.

It is horrible to see everything that one detested in the past coming back wearing the colors of the future.

To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.

It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.