It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a nobody.

The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.

An egotist always resents meeting another egotist as if he alone had the right to be one.

To have a horror of the bourgeois is bourgeois.

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

Clarity is the politeness of the man of letters.

We must be greater than God, for we have to undo His injustice.