Charles Peguy

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.

It is the essence of genius to make use of the simplest ideas.

Short of genius a rich man cannot imagine poverty.

A great philosophy is not a philosophy without reproach it is philosophy without fear.

One must always tell what one sees. Above all which is more difficult one must always see what one sees.

It has never been given to a man to attain at once his happiness and his salvation.

Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.

When a man dies he does not just die of the disease he has: he dies of his whole life.