Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.
An existence transfigured by failure.
Knowledge, having irritated and stimulated our appetite for power, will lead us inexorably to our ruin.
Every form of talent involves a certain shameless-ness.
If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices.
The more one has suffered, the less one demands. To protest is a sign one has traversed no hell.