Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.

I have been a hundred times on the point of killing myself, but still was fond of life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our worst instincts. What can be more absurd than choosing to carry a burden that one really wants to throw to the ground? To detest, and yet to strive to preserve our existence? To caress the serpent that devours us, and hug him close to our bosoms till he has gnawed into our hearts?

Dare to think for yourself.

Doubt is not a very agreeable status, but certainty is a ridiculous one.

‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

It is ourselves alone that make our days lucky or unlucky. Away, then, with a vain prejudice, the invention of the priesthood, which has been transmitted by our ancestors to an ignorant people.

There are two things for which animals are to be envied: they know nothing of future evils, or of what people say about them.