He saw before him two roads, both equally straight ; but he saw two; and that terrified him — him, who had never in his life known but one straight line. And, bitter anguish, these two roads were contradictory.

The most ferocious animals are disarmed by caresses to their young.

To know, to think, to dream. That is everything.

If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring.

No matter who you are, the thought of so much suffering and degradation must cause you to shudder at the sight of a veil or cassock, those two shrouds of human invention.

The repose of darkness is deeper on the water than on the land.

Without at all invalidating what we have just said, we believe that a perpetual remembrance of the tomb is proper for the living. On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.