Every society has a tendency to reduce it's opponents to caricatures.

The love of one sole being is a barbarism; for it will be employed to the detriment of all the rest. So too the love of God.

Whoever gives advice to a sick person acquires a feeling of superiority over him, whether the advice be accepted or rejected.

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

the voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls

Having a talent is not enough: one must also have your permission to have it--right, my friends?

Man is more sensitive to the contempt that others feel towards him than to the contempt that he feels towards himself.