I have all the defects of other people yet everything they do seems to me inconceivable.

We change ideas like neckties.

We must learn how to explode! Any disease is healthier than the one provoked by a hoarded rage.

If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices.

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.

I have decided not to oppose anyone ever again, since I have noticed that I always end by resembling my latest enemy.

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