Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.

Sickness sensitizes man for observation, like a photographic plate.

Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.

History is a novel that has been lived, a novel is history that could have been.

People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.

The English are crooked as a nation and honest as individuals. The contrary is true of the French, who are honest as a nation and crooked as individuals.

The facts: nothing matters but the facts: worship of the facts leads to everything, to happiness first of all and then to wealth.