We must kill them in war, just because they live beyond the river. If they lived on this side, we would be called murderers.

Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday. You are today where the thoughts of yesterday have brought you and you will be tomorrow where the thoughts of today take you.

If he exalts himself, I humble him. If he humbles himself, I exalt him. And I go on contradicting him Until he understands That he is a monster that passes all understanding.

I know whom I have believed.

A town, a landscape are when seen from afar a town and a landscape; but as one gets nearer, there are houses, trees, tiles leaves, grasses, ants, legs of ants and so on to infinity. All this is subsumed under the name of landscape.

It is not shameful for a man to succumb to pain and it is shameful to succumb to pleasure.

Equality of possessions is no doubt right, but, as men could not make might obey right, they have made right obey might.