Cruelty is the luxury of those who have nothing to do, like drugs or racing stables.

Our great mistake is to try to exact from each person virtues which he does not possess, and to neglect the cultivation of those which he has.

If you love life you also love the past, because it is the present as it has survived in memory." Translation by David Downie

I have never seasoned a truth with the sauce of a lie in order to digest it more easily

Love is a punishment. We are punished for not having been strong enough to remain alone.

We say: mad with joy. We should say: wise with grief.

On the whole, however, it is only out of pride or gross ignorance, or cowardice, that we refuse to see in the present the lineaments of times to come.