Kill one man and you're a murderer, kill a million and you're a conqueror.

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.

Far too often the choices reality proposes are such as to take away one's taste for choosing.

In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.

We bestow on others praise in which we do not believe, on condition that in return they bestow upon us praise in which we do.

Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.