One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired.

Compulsion precedes morality, indeed morality itself is compulsion for a time, to which one submits for the avoidance of pain.

People press toward the light not in order to see better but in order to shine better.--We are happy to regard the one before whomwe shine as light.

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.

One pays dearly for being immortal: one must die many times during his life.

In war personal revenge maintains its silence.