Only strong personalities can endure history, the weak are extinguished by it.

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

We feign pity when we want to demonstrate our ascendancy over feelings of hostility: but usually in vain. Whenever we notice this,there is an accompanying surge in those hostile sensations.

The wheel and the brake have different duties, but also one in common: to hurt one another.

In war personal revenge maintains its silence.

...one can speak with the utmost clearness, and yet not be heard by anyone.

The higher culture an individual attains, the less field there is left for mockery and scorn.