Sometimes one day in a difference place gives you more than ten years of a life at home.

One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me.

Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.

It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.

People who don't count won't count.

A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is very easy to govern. It demands no social reform. It does not haggle over expenditures for armaments and military equipment. It pays without discussion, it ruins itself, and that is an excellent thing for the syndicates of financiers and manufacturers for whom patriotic terrors are an abundant source of gain.

What men call civilization is the condition of present customs; what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones.