A child. . . opens and closes like a blossom.

Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.

People's fates are simplified by their names.

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

It is always the enemy who started it, even if he was not the first to speak out, he was certainly planning it; and if he was not actually planning it, he was thinking of it; and, if he was not thinking of it, he would have thought of it.

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

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