One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace.

There is an invisible garment woven around us from our earliest years; it is made of the way we eat, the way we walk, the way we greet people.

Born enemies don't fight. Nations you would say were designed to go to war against each other by their skins, their language, their smell; always jealous of each other, always hating each other; they're not the ones who fight. You will find the real antagonists in nations fate has groomed and made ready for the same war.

Only the mediocre are always at their best.

During war we imprison the rights of man.

You're an Attorney. It's your duty to lie, conceal, and distort everything, and slander everybody.

Falsehood is the jockey of misfortune.