
All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too worn out.

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

Charm is... a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.