If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.

I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.