The form most contradictory to human life that can appear among the human species is the "self-satisfied man."

The person portrayed and the portrait are two entirely different things.

The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will.

Romantic poses aside, let us recognize that "falling in love"...is an inferior state of mind, a form of transitory imbecility.

Man adapts himself to everything, to the best and the worst.

A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation.

The cynic, a parasite of civilization, lives by denying it, for the very reason that he is convinced that it will not fail.