Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
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.
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Those who prefer their principles over their happiness, they refuse to be happy outside the conditions they seem to have attached to their happiness.
If pimps and thieves were invariably sentenced, all decent people would get to thinking they themselves were constantly innocent.
With the exception of professional rationalists, today people despair of true knowledge. If only the significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be he history of its successive regrets and its impotences.
As if familiar paths traced in summer skies could lead as easily to prison as to the sleep of the innocent..
To begin with, poor people´s memory is less nourished than that of a rich; it has fewer landmarks in space because they seldom leave the place where they live, and fewer reference points in time throughtout lives that are grey and featureless.
One always has exaggerated ideas about what one doesn't know.
There's the risk of being loved...and that would keep me from being happy.
But that's love, to give away everything, to sacrifice everything, without the slightest desire to get anything in return.
Each of us had to be content to live only for the day, alone under the vast indifference of the sky.
The best are led to make greater demands upon themselves. As for those who succumb, they did not deserve to survive.
The absurd does not liberate; it binds.
Poverty is a fortress without drawbridges.
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what "happiness" consists of.
In the long run one gets used to anything.
Happiness is often only a pity for one's own misfortune.
