Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.

War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon's proclamations.

The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.

Why not make an end of it all?... My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings.... What is death?... A very small matter,when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.

Women prefer emotions to reasoning.

This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.