“I know of only one duty, and that is to love.”
Love“Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.”
Inspirational“I know of only one duty, and that is to love.”
Love“Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.”
Freedom“Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.”
Hope“Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.”
Nature“A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.”
Truth“Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.”
Good“After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.”
Best“There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.”
Change“Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.”
Fear“All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.”
Great“For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.”
Life“A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.”
Freedom“Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.”
Life“We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.”
Life“To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.”
Faith“The society based on production is only productive, not creative.”
Society“In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.”
Nature“We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.”
God“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.”
Good“It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.”
Finance