We call first truths those we discover after all the others.
The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.
The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.
Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.
Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.
There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.
There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.
Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.
I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is.
Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.
Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.
All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.
You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.
It is always easy to be logical. It is almost impossible to be logical to the bitter end.
We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.
The absurd hero’s refusal to hope becomes his singular ability to live in the present with passion.
Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?