Nothing deserves to be undone, doubtless because nothing deserved to be done.

We have convictions only if we have studied nothing thoroughly.

No position is so false as having understood and still remaining alive.

The need for novelty is the characteristic of an alienated gorilla.

Say what we will, death is the best thing nature has found to please everyone. With each of us, everything vanishes, everything stops forever. What an advantage, what an abuse! Without the least effort on our part, we own the universe, we drag it into our own disappearance. No doubt about it, dying is immoral...

I do nothing, granted. But I see the hours pass — which is better than trying to fill them.

Nothing is a better proof of how far humanity has regressed than the impossibility of finding a single nation, a single tribe, among whom birth still provokes mourning and lamentations.

The poor, by thinking unceasingly of money, reach the point of losing the spiritual advantages of non-possession, thereby sinking as low as the rich.

"What do you do from morning to night?" "I endure myself."

Paradise was unendurable, otherwise the first man would have adapted to it; this world is no less so, since here we regret paradise or anticipate another one. What to do? Where to go? Do nothing and go nowhere, easy enough.