"Pascal, I admire you, you are mine, I penetrate your thought as if I thought in you; magnanimous, deep sadness, deep …"

"Discourse on Virtue. Virtue does not promise anything, it merely takes pleasure in its own deeds. To courage he propo…"

"We see sometimes, in the dark schools, | Kids who are always crying. | They go wild, the others in somersaults, | but…"

"When a woman is truly chaste, she is also incorruptible; I will be less likely to believe in the moral failures of an…"

"I will come to a solution about the problem of time. When the infinite shows a hem of its garment, it casts its immen…"

"When one has delved into a philosophical problem, one must, somehow, step back like a painter in front of the picture…"

"And you think she's dead? | No. The day I mourned for her, | I did not distinguish funereal hanging drapes | nor did …"

"I think of my young colleagues who don't have the means to have their first poems printed. I'm going to reserve a sum…"

"He who knows die, has no longer a master."

"That Sully Prudhomme is a brilliant artist, a very delicate poet, is well known by those who have heard, with or with…"