“How many things were articles of faith to us yesterday that are fables to us today?”

“Combien de choses nous servoyent hier d’articles de foy, qui nous sont fables aujourd’huy?How many things served us yesterday for articles of faith, which today are fables for us?”

“There is no knowledge so hard to acquire as the knowledge of how to live this life well and naturally.”

“Saying is one thing and doing is another”

“The beautiful souls are they that are unniversal, open, and ready for all things.”

“We need to interpret interpretations more than to interpret things.”

“To begin depriving death of its greatest advantage over us, let us adopt a way clean contrary to that common one; let us deprive death of its strangeness, let us frequent it, let us get used to it; let us have nothing more often in mind than death... We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere." "To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.”