The individual man tries to escape the race. And as soon as he ceases to represent the race, he represents man.

Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.

Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.

Nothing is good for everyone, but only relatively to some people.

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

To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one’s freedom.

Fish die belly-upward and rise to the surface; it is their way of falling.

The important thing is being capable of emotions, but to experience only one's own would be a sorry limitation.

To win one’s joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.

Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood; education is an emancipation.