A desire for truth is by no means a need for certitude and it would be unwise to confuse one with the other.

Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.

One should want only one thing and want it constantly. Then one is sure of getting it. But I desire everything, and consequently get nothing.

Then you think that one can keep a hopeless love in one's heart for so long as that?...And that life can breathe upon it every day, without extinguishing it?

The nationalist has a broad hatred and a narrow love.

The individual never asserts himself more than when he forgets himself.

I prefer granting with a good grace what I know I shan't be able to prevent.