No one can keep his griefs in their prime; they use themselves up.
Humanity adores only those who cause it to perish.
Tyrants are always assassinated too late. That is their great excuse.
There was a time when time did not yet exist.
My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.
What I know at sixty, I knew as well at twenty. Forty years of a long, superfluous, labor of verification.