Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.

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

When everything has its proper place in our minds, we are able to stand in equilibrium with the rest of the world.

A man only understands what is akin to something already existing in himself.

We become actors without realizing it, and actors without wanting to.

What we call little things are merely the causes of great things; they are the beginning, the embryo, and it is the point of departure which, generally speaking, decides the whole future of an existence. One single black speck may be the beginning of gangrene, of a storm, of a revolution.

Happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.