There is no frontier between being and appearing.

There is scarcely any passion without struggle.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Germany collapsed as a result of having engaged in a struggle for empire with the concepts of provincial politics.

When the body is sad, the heart languishes.

Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies. And the fact that men accept this, that the people’s anger has not destroyed these hollow clowns, strikes me as proof that men attribute no importance to the way they are governed; that they gamble – yes, gamble – with a whole part of their life and their so called 'vital interests.

Those who prefer their principles over their happiness, they refuse to be happy outside the conditions they seem to have attached to their happiness.