The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times, it is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.

Be grateful as your deeds become less and less associated with your name, as your feet ever more lightly tread the earth.

It is more important to understand the ground of your own behavior than to understand the motives of another.

The truth is so simple that it is regarded as a pretentious banality.

The concept of loyalty is distorted when it is understood to mean blind acceptance. It is correctly interpreted when it is assumed to cover honest criticism.

This accidental meeting of possibilities calls itself I. I ask: what am I doing here? And, at once, this I becomes unreal.

He who wants to keep his garden tidy doesn't reserve a plot for weeds.