Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.

Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.

Solitude is indeed dangerous for a working intelligence. We need to have around us people who think and speak. When we are alone for a long time we people the void with phantoms

Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.

Those men, those of former times, had soul and eyes that in no way resemble ours, and in their veins, along with their blood, flowed something that has disappeared: love and admiration for the Beautiful.

You must render: never report.

I said, 'If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn't we meet them a long time ago?