He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself.

He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself.

The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes.

The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.

Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people.

Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.