We are not naïve enough to ask for pure men; we ask merely for men whose impurity does not conflict with the obligations of their job.

Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become.

Hatred, for the man who is not engaged in it, is a little like the odor of garlic for one who hasn't eaten any.

I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence.

To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few.

We give others praise which we ourselves don't believe, as long as they respond with praise we can believe.

I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.