There is always time to take more time.

It is not by believing but by doubting that one can attain to the truth, which is ever changing form and condition.

In all nations an exceptional man exists that compensates the deficiencies of the remainder. In those moments, when humanity is found collectively in a state of decadence, there always remain those exceptional beings as point of reference.

Man is an idiot. He doesn't know how to do anything without copying, without imitating, without plagiarizing, without aping. It might even have been that man invented generation by coitus after seeing the grasshopper copulate.

Anyone who attempts to relate his life loses himself in the immediate. One can only speak of another.

Forms disappear, words remain, to signify the impossible.

The great principle of Justice: prevent crime rather than punish it. All that is needed to execute a guilty man is a firing squad or a hangman. To prevent there being guilty men requires great astuteness.