Something unappeased, unappeasable, is within me.

The public easily confuses him who fishes in troubled waters with him who draws up water from the depths.

Another Christian concept, no less crazy, has passed even more deeply into the tissue of modernity: the concept of the 'equality of souls before God.' This concept furnishes the prototype of all theories of equal rights.

My brother, are war and battle evil? Necessary, however, is the evil; necessary are the envy and the distrust and the back-biting among the virtues.

No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.

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

The moment Germany rises as a great power, France gains a new importance as a cultural power.