You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil.

One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.

There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.

There are two things a real man likes - danger and play; and he likes woman because she is the most dangerous of play things.

It is very noble hypocrisy not to talk of one's self.

The belief in authority is the source of conscience; which is therefore not the voice of God in the heart of man, but the voice of some men in man.

Against war one might say that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished malicious. In its favor, that in producing these two effects it barbarizes, and so makes the combatants more natural. For culture it is a sleep or a wintertime, and man emerges from it stronger for good and for evil.