Genuine historical knowledge requires nobility of character, a profound understanding of human existence - not detachment and objectivity.

Brave people may be persuaded to an action by representing it as being more dangerous than it really is.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

The surest sign of the estrangement of the opinions of two persons is when they both say something ironical to each other and neither of them feels the irony.

Love and hatred are not blind, but are blinded by the fire they bear within themselves.

That for which we find words is something already dead in our hearts.

One can also be undignified and flattering toward a virtue.