The more one has suffered, the less one demands. To protest is a sign one has traversed no hell.
Tyrants are always assassinated too late. That is their great excuse.
Everything is pathology, except for indifference.
We are born to exist, not to know, to be, not to assert ourselves.
Discretion is deadly to genius; ruinous to talent.
True moral elegance consists in the art of disguising one's victories as defeats.