Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice..

Woe to these people who have no appetite for the very dish that their age serves up..

The world will be saved by one or two people..

Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit..

One completely overcomes only what one assimilates..

An unprejudiced mind is probably the rarest thing in the world; to nonprejudice I attach the greatest value..

There is a law in life: When one door closes to us another one opens..

The itch is a mean, unconfessable, ridiculous malady; one can pity someone who is suffering ; someone who wants to scratch himself makes one laugh..

The public always prefers to be reassured. There are those whose job this is. There are only too many..

Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would ….

Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change..

The work of art is the exaggeration of an idea..

The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious..

Man: The most complex of beings, and thus the most dependent of beings. On all that made you up, you depend..

God lies ahead. I convince myself and constantly repeat to myself that: He depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved..

Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral ….

Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue..

It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor..

Without mysticism man can achieve nothing great..

Atheism. There is not a single exalting and emancipating influence that does not in turn become inhibitory..

Money cannot buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable. Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happi….