What scientist would not long to go on living, if only to see how the little truths he has brought to light will grow up?

Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind.

In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

It may offend us to hear our own thoughts expressed by others: we are not sure enough of their souls.

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

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

To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few.