Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said.

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.

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

One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void.

Theories pass. The frog remains.

In our ideals we unwittingly reveal our vices.

There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.