“Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness...”

“Rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love.”

“The future is the only transcendental value for men without God.”

“The human heart has a tiresome tendency to label as fate only what crushes it. But happiness likewise, in its way, is without reason, since it is inevitable.”

“Even men without a gospel have their Mount of Olives. And one must not fall asleep on theirs either.”

“Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.”

“Poverty is a fortress without drawbridges.”