Man, in spite of his tendency towards mendacity, has a great respect for what he calls the truth. Truth is his staff in his voyage through life; commonplaces are the bread in his bag and the wine in his jug.

Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him.

The ever-present phenomenon ceases to exist for our senses. It was a city dweller, or a prisoner, or a blind man suddenly given his sight, who first noted natural beauty.

Nothing exists except by virtue of a disequilibrium, an injustice. All existence is a theft paid for by other existences; no life flowers except on a cemetery.

Man begins by loving love and ends by loving a woman. Woman begins by loving a man and ends by loving love.

Money is the sign of liberty. To curse money is to curse liberty- to curse life, which is nothing, if it be not free.

Man has made use of his intelligence; he invented stupidity.