Those who love a cause are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it.

Love consents to all and commands only those who consent. Love is abdication. God is abdication.

The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.

The notion of obligations comes before that of rights, which is subordinate and relative to the former. A right is not effectual by itself, but only in relation to the obligation to which it corresponds.

One must always be ready to change sides with justice, that fugitive from the winning camp.

I can, therefore I am.

In order to obey God, one must receive his commands. How did it happen that I received them in adolescence, while I was professing atheism? To believe that the desire for good is always fulfilled - that is faith, and whoever has it is not an atheist.