Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were.

Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.

The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.

Every great masterpiece is a purification of the world.

Nothing is harder than to get people to think about what they are going to do.

The terrible thing about death is that it transforms life into destiny.

There are not fifty ways of fighting, there's only one, and that's to win. Neither revolution nor war consists in doing what one pleases.