Stupefaction, when it persists, becomes stupidity.

I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.

Romantic poses aside, let us recognize that "falling in love"...is an inferior state of mind, a form of transitory imbecility.

Triumph cannot help being cruel.

I am I plus my surroundings; and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.

Whoever has not felt the danger of our times palpitating under his hand, has not really penetrated to the vitals of destiny, he has merely pricked the surface.

The heart of man does not tolerate an absence of the excellent and supreme.