In war personal revenge maintains its silence.

I need solitude, which is to say, recovery, return to my self, the breath of a free, light, playful air.

Every word is a preconceived judgment.

When anyone apologizes to us he has to do it very expertly: otherwise we might easily come to see ourselves as the guilty party and experience unpleasant feelings.

I presume that you are compassionate: to be without pity means to be sick in body and spirit. But one should have spirit in abundance, so as to be permitted to be compassionate! For your pity is detrimental to you and to everyone.

A man unconsciously imagines that where he is strong, where he feels most thoroughly alive, the element of his freedom must lie.

Democracy represents the disbelief in all great men and in all elite societies: everybody is everybody's equal.