Almost all our desires, when examined, contain what we dare not avow.
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
Wisdom is a sacred communion.
When we are at the end of life, to die means to go away; when we are at the beginning, to go away means to die.
When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.
What a grand thing, to be loved? What a grander thing still, to love?
We should judge a man much more surely from what he dreams than from what he thinks.
We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.
We do not comprehend everything, but we insult nothing.
We are given up to those gods, those monsters, those giants: our thoughts.
We are for religion against the religions.