One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.
It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.
He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.
The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.
If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
Injustice in the end produces independence.
The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.
Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.
Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.
My life is a struggle.
He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.
The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.
We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.
To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.
It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
To hold a pen is to be at war.
It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.
