A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate.

There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.

To live... in any sense of the word... is to reject others; to accept them, one must renounce, do oneself violence.

Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself.

We die in proportion to the words we fling around us.

Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.