Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.

It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not deserve to live; before killing other good, decent fellows like himself, his gun would fall from his hands.

Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.

The color of truth is gray.

Never have I been able to settle in life. Always seated askew, as if on the arm of a chair; ready to get up, to leave.

Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.

Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes