I am I plus my surroundings; and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.

In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will.

We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.

We fall in love when our imagination projects nonexistent perfection upon another person. One day, the fantasy evaporates and with it, love dies.

We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be.

Revolution is not the uprising against preexisting order, but the setting up of a new order contradictory to the traditional one