To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.

Jealousy is not contemptible, real love has a beak and claws.

And without a doubt it is more comfortable to endure blind bondage than to work for one's liberation; the dead, too, are better suited to the earth than the living.

That a whole part of the middle class detests me... is utterly normal. I would be troubled if the contrary were true.

it is true that nothing is gained without something being lost: everyone knows that in fulfilling oneself one necessarily sacrifices some possibilities.

If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male's arrogance made it "a discussion

Retirement revives the sorrow of parting, the feeling of abandonment, solitude and uselessness that is caused by the loss of some beloved person.