Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth

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.

The only way out [of international dictatorship] is to place international law above governments, which means [...] that there must be a parliament for making it, and that parliament must be constituted by means of worldwide elections in which all nations will take part.

In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the end of our errors. Childish presumption which justifies the fact that child-nations, inheriting our follies, are now directing our history.

Where would his torture be, indeed, if at every step the hope of succeeding upheld him?

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

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.