Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.

A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand.

Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.

The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own.

Sorrento, August. For two weeks now I haven't heard a German word or understood an Italian one. This way one can manage to live with people; everything goes like clockwork and no irksome misunderstanding can arise.

Ingratitude is often disproportionate to the benefaction received.

It is a mystery to me how a theologian can be praised for having brought himself to disbelieve dogmas. I've always thought that those who have brought themselves to believe in dogmas merit the true recognition owing a heroic deed.