There is an innocence in lying which is the sign of good faith in a cause.

With sturdy shoulders, space stands opposing all its weight to nothingness. Where space is, there is being.

Scholars who become politicians are usually assigned the comic role of having to be the good conscience of state policy.

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.

A man should not play the coward to his deeds. He should not repudiate them once he has performed them. Pangs of conscience are indecent.

Let us not underestimate the privileges of the mediocre. As one climbs higher, life becomes ever harder, the coldness increases, responsibility increases.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.