Hope is a delusion; no hand can grasp a wave or a shadow.
That men saw his mask, but the bishop saw his face. That men saw his life, but the bishop saw his conscience.
God became man, granted. The devil became a woman.
A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
Wonderful nature has a double meaning, which dazzles great minds and blinds uncultivated souls. When man is ignorant, when the desert is filled with visions, the darkness of solitude is added to the darkness of intelligence; hence, in man, the possibilities of perdition
To err is human. To loaf is Parisian.