God was bored by him.

He sought...to transform the grief which looks down into the grave by showing it the grief which looks up to the stars.

If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!

The guillotine is the ultimate expression of Law, and its name is vengeance; it is not neutral, nor does it allow us to remain neutral.

Equality does not mean that all plants must grow to the same height - a society of tall grass and dwarf trees, a jostle of conflicting jealousies. It means, in civic terms, an equal outlet for all talents; in political terms, that all votes will carry the same weight; and in religious terms that all beliefs will enjoy equal rights.

Table talk and Lovers' talk equally elude the grasp; Lovers' talk is clouds, table talk is smoke.

Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment.