Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave.
We have convictions only if we have studied nothing thoroughly.
On Creating — What we crave, what we want to see in others eyes, is that servile expression, an unconcealed infatuation with our gestures.
If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices.
Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.
As the years pass, the number of those we can communicate with diminishes. When there is no longer anyone to talk to, at last we will be as we were before stooping to a name.