I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.
Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.
If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.
Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.
We do not judge the people we love.
All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man's resources?
Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.
When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.
The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point.
Hell is other people.
Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world.
What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.
Words are loaded pistols.
There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.
If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically.
Existence precedes and rules essence.
I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
