If someone does me injury I must desire that this injury shall not degrade me. I must desire this out of love for him who inflicts it, in order that he may not really have done evil.

On reaching a certain degree of pain we lose the world.

one is never got out of the cave, one comes out of it.

The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.

The payment of debts is necessary for social order. The non-payment is quite equally necessary for social order. For centuries humanity has oscillated, serenely unaware, between these two contradictory necessities.

Renunciation is submission to time.

What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.