People love as self-recognition what they hate as an accusation.

As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.

In eternity everything is just beginning.

Words are not too old, only people are too old if they use the same words too frequently.

There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight

I cannot become modest; too many things burn in me; the old solutions are falling apart; nothing has been done yet with the new ones. So I begin, everywhere at once, as if I had a century ahead of me.

Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.