Being right is less important to us than the freedom to be wrong.
The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.
In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.
Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt.
The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.
The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.