What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them

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.

What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them

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.

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.

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