Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

Quote by Albert Camus

Topics: Friends Quotes

Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is...

Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is...

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to...

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to...

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society...

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society...

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness....

Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness....

What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.

What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and...

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and...

Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name...

Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name...

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others

There is but one freedom, to put oneself right with death. After that everything is...

There is but one freedom, to put oneself right with death. After that everything is...

We are all special cases.

We are all special cases.

It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to...

It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to...

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often...

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often...

The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a...

The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a...

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I...

Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I...

I'm a controversial figure: my friends either dislike me or hate me.

I'm a controversial figure: my friends either dislike me or hate me.

The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business...

The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business...

I prefer ordinary girls - you know, college students, waitresses, that sort of thing. Most...

I prefer ordinary girls - you know, college students, waitresses, that sort of thing. Most...

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he...

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he...

If you keep worrying about the future, you will never live in the present.

If you keep worrying about the future, you will never live in the present.