Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.

From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

It is better to burn than to disappear.

Yes, and when the love of life disappears, no meaning can console us.

Without memories, without hope, they lived for the moment only. indeed, the here and now had come to mean everything to them. For there is no denying that the plague had gradually killed off in all of us the faculty not of love only but even of friendship. Naturally enough, since love asks something of the future, and nothing was left us but a series of present moments.

The revolutionary government was required to become the government of the war.

Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.