Quotes

Out of constables we have made grandees, idiots have shared out the honours, thieves are making rich men for us, dark souls have called themselves patriots.

Live among men as if God beheld you; speak with God as if men were listening.

How quickly we come from nothing and go into nothing.

The longer I know the joys of this world, the less I value them.

Every generation, no doubt, believes itself called to remake the world. Mine knows that it will not remake it.

There is no shame in being happy.

You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.

To understand the world, one must sometimes turn away from it.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

There are more things to admire in men than to despise.

What is a rebel? A man who says no.

In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.