One sometimes weeps over one's illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.

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

Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.

Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.

There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress.

Military men are the scourges of the world.

History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.