Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

When the rich wage war it's the poor who die.

We are our choices.

Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.

Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. It is up to you to give [life] a meaning.

Hell is—other people!

I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.

Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.

If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.

The first sentiment of man was that of his existence, his first care that of preserving it.

If he who has control of men ought not to control the laws, then he who controls the laws ought not control men: otherwise his laws would minister to his passions..

It is difficult for an education in which the heart is involved to remain forever lost.

More than half of my life is past; I have left only the time I need for turning the rest of it to account and for effacing my errors by my virtues.

The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty

For if men needed speech in order to learn to think, they had a still greater need for knowing how to think in order to discover the art of speaking" - Rousseau

Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.

Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.

I don't know how this lively and dumb scene would have ended , or how long I might have remained immoveable in this ridiculous and delightful situation , had we not been interrupted.

I can discover nothing in any mere animal but an ingenious machine, to which nature has given senses to wind itself up, and guard, to a certain degree, against everything that might destroy or disorder it.

Among the many short cuts to science, we badly need someone to teach us the art of learning with difficulty.

My love for imaginary objects and my facility in lending myself to them ended by disillusioning me with everything around me, and determined that love of solitude which I have retained ever since that time.

To write a love letter, you have to start, without knowing, what you want to say, and end, without knowing what you have said.