On the brink of being satiated, desire still appears infinite.

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.

Marriage simplifies life and complicates the day.

It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, with the possible exception of the teacher who backs him or the student who honors him.

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.

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

There are things that don't deserve to be said briefly.