One cannot be a part-time nihilist.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.

I know myself too well to believe in pure virtue.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

The words that reverberate for us at the confines of this long adventure of rebellion are not formulas for optimism, for which we have no possible use in the extremities of our unhappiness, but words of courage and intelligence which, on the shores of the eternal seas, even have the qualities of virtue.