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

Letters couldn't care less whether what is written with them is true or false.

Facts can't be recounted; much less twice over, and far less still by different persons. I've already drummed that thoroughly into your head.

There is always time to take more time.

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.

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.