When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Work is what horses die of

Human nature, if it changes at all, changes not much faster than the geological face of the earth.

For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.

Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word 'modernity' if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China.

Should one point out that from ancient times decline in courage has been considered the beginning of the end?

The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow.