Mind, even more deadly to empires than to individuals, erodes them, compromises their solidity.

To read is to let someone else work for you - the most delicate form of exploitation.

Basis of society: anonymous sweat.

What a pity that 'nothingness' has been devalued by an abuse of it made by philosophers unworthy of it!

Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.

Alone, even doing nothing, you do not waste your time. You do, almost always, in company. No encounter with yourself can be altogether sterile: Something necessarily emerges, even if only the hope of some day meeting yourself again.

Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.