"In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer."
"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life."
"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."
"Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?"
"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower."
"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."
"There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn."
"A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world."
"Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object."
"How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing."
"Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference."
"Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions."
"Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful."
"Stupidity has a knack of getting its way."
"He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool."
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."
"At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things."
"The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone."
"The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude."
"A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing."
"Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is."
"Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present."
"But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?"
"Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better."
"We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die."