How poisonous, how crafty, how bad, does every long war make one, which cannot be waged openly by means of force!

Everyone carries within himself an image of womanliness derived from his mother: it is this that determines whether, on the whole,he will revere women, or despise them, or remain generally indifferent to them.

One must cease letting oneself be eaten when one tastes best: that is known to those who want to be loved long.

To be moral, correct, and virtuous is to be obedient to an old established law and custom.

Three metamorphoses of the spirit I relate to you: how the spirit becomes a camel; and the camel, a lion; and the lion, finally, a child.

In being wildly natural we recover best from being unnatural, from being spiritual.

The people we have employed in an undertaking that has turned out badly should be doubly rewarded.