There are means that cannot be excused. And I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice. I don't want just any greatness for it, particularly a greatness born of blood and falsehood. I want to keep it alive by keeping justice alive.

...the play of the toughest and most lucid mind are at the same time both lavished andsquandered.

In Italian museums are sometimes found little painted screens that the priest used to hold in front of the face of condemned men to hide the scaffold from them.

I had only a little time left and I didn't want to waste it on God.

None of the evils which totalitarianism ... claims to remedy is worse than totalitarianism itself.

The truth, as the light, makes blind.

I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness.