We give others praise which we ourselves don't believe, as long as they respond with praise we can believe.

The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Literature: proclaiming in front of everyone what one is careful to conceal from one's immediate circle

Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god.

To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.

Theories pass. The frog remains.