They ought to find out how to vaccinate for love, like smallpox.

From the self-confidence with which he spoke no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid.

It would, therefore, seem obvious that patriotism as a feeling is bad and harmful, and as a doctrine is stupid. For it is clear that if each people and each State considers itself the best of peoples and States, they all live in a gross and harmful delusion.

A man's every action is inevitably conditioned by what surrounds him and by his own body.

Why nowadays there's a new fashion every day.

Life did not stop, and one had to live.

There lay between them, separating them, that same terrible line of the unknown and of fear, like the line separating the living from the dead.