To love the truth is to refuse to let oneself be saddened by it..

How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality..

The individual never asserts himself more than when he forgets himself..

Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it; doubt all, but do not doubt yourself..

Through fear of resembling one another, through horror of having to submit, through uncertainty as well, through skepticism and complexity, there is ….

The novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf and the lamb, then smiled, “seeing th….

The bad novelist constructs his characters; he directs them and makes them speak. The true novelist listens to them and watches them act; he hears th….

The true return to nature is the definitive return to the elements-death..

Envying another man's happiness is madness; you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it..

Sadness is a state of sin..

To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy..

They establish distinctions and reserves which I cannot apply to myself, for I exist only as a whole; my only claim is to be natural, and the pleasur….

With each book you write you should lose the admirers you gained with the previous one..

Every perfect action is accompanied by pleasure. By that you can tell what you ought to do..

A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective..

Man is extraordinarily clever in preventing himself from being happy; it would seem that the less able he is to endure misfortune the more apt he is ….

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time..

There are admirable potentialities in every human being..

It is one of life's laws that as soon as one door closes another opens. But the tragedy is we look at the closed door and disregard the open one..

In order to judge properly, one must get away somewhat from what one is judging, after having loved it. This is true of countries, of persons, and of….

In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not ….