We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.
Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.
Theories pass. The frog remains.
Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.
To be adult is to be alone.
A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.
One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god.
Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.
Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.
A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time.
The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same.
A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.
Far too often the choices reality proposes are such as to take away one's taste for choosing.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.
Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you.
Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind.
Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble. That was the end of that.
Hatred, for the man who is not engaged in it, is a little like the odor of garlic for one who hasn't eaten any.
I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.
I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.
