The human plagiarism which is most difficult to avoid, for individuals... is the plagiarism of ourselves.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

The thirst for something other than what we have…to bring something new, even if it is worse, some emotion, some sorrow; when our sensibility, which happiness has silenced like an idle harp, wants to resonate under some hand, even a rough one, and even if it might be broken by it.

Not caring for their lives' is it? Why, what in the world is there that we should care for if it's not our lives, the only gift the Lord never offers us a second time.

Having a body is in itself the greatest threat to the mind... The body encloses the mind in a fortress; before long the mind is besieged on all sides, and in the end the mind has to give itself up.

Human altruism which is not egoism, is sterile.

Most of our faculties lie dormant because they can rely upon Habit, which knows what there is to be done and has no need of their services.