"If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat." — Jean-Paul Sartre

You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.

My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.

The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.