Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf

The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand.

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

Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.

The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.

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

Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.