War is a brutal and fierce means of pacification; it means the suppression of resistance by the destruction or enslavement of the conquered.

The immense majority of our species are candidates for humanity, and nothing more.

The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.

Every landscape is, as it were, a state of the soul, and whoever penetrates into both is astonished to find how much likeness there is in each detail.

Happiness does away with ugliness, and even makes the beauty of beauty.

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits.