They came from the four corners of the earth, driven by hunger, plague, tumors, and the cold, and stopped here. They couldn’t go any futrther because of the ocean. That’s France, that’s the French people.

Truth is a pain which will not stop. And the truth of this world is to die. You must choose: either dying or lying. Personally, I have never been able to kill myself

I warn you that when the princes of this world start loving you it means they are going to grind you up into battle sausage.

People avenge themselves for the favors done them.

Chin up, Ferdinand," I kept saying to myself, to keep up my courage. "What with being chucked out of everywhere, you're sure to find whatever it is that scares all those bastards so. It must be at the end of the night, and that's why they're so dead set against going to the end of the night.

When men can hate without risk, their stupidity is easily convinced, the motives supply themselves.

I have never voted in my life... I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so it's certain they will win.