Each man for himself in that desert of egoism which is called life. - Stendhal

إن العذر الوحيد لله هو كونه غير موجود

Nothing is so odious to the mediocre as mental superiority. There lies the source of hatred in the world of today.

It should be explained that the cure of Verrieres, an old man of eighty, but blessed by the keen air of his mountains with an iron character and strength, had the right to visit at any hour of the day the prison, the hospital, and even the poorhouse. It was at six o'clock in the morning precisely that M. Appert, who was armed with an introduction to the cure from Paris, had had the good sense to arrive in an inquisitive little town. He had gone at once to the presbytery.