Your destiny is that of a man, your vows those of a god.
Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one's garden.
Man is not born wicked; he becomes so, as he becomes sick.
There is only one morality, as there is only one geometry.
Indolence is sweet, and its consequences bitter.
Faith consists in believing not what seems true, but what seems false to our understanding.