The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.

He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.

The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.

If slavery, barbarism and desolation are to be called peace, men can have no worse misfortune.

What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.

Minds are not conquered by force, but by love and high-mindedness.