To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

Punishment is a vital need of the human soul.

There are two atheisms of which one is a purification of the notion of God.

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.

Friendship is a miracle by which a person consents to view from a certain distance, without coming any nearer, the very being who is as necessary to him as food.

Modern war appears as a struggle led by all the State apparatuses and their general staffs against all men old enough to bear arms.

For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.