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.

Travelling, one accepts everything; indignation stays at home. One looks, one listens, one is roused to enthusiasm by the most dreadful things because they are new. Good travellers are heartless.

The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.

Of all the words in all languages I know, the greatest concentration is in the English word I.

The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think the paranoiac the more impressive of the two because he is sufficient unto himself and cannot be shaken by failure.

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