"I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be"
"I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul"
"One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day"
"One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life"
"Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat"
"Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor"
"My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking"
"Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have"
