I was just as anxious to prevent injustice as to cause justice.

The sacrifice of pleasures is of course itself a pleasure.

Every communist has a fascist frown, every fascist a communist smile.

The word "education" comes from the root e from ex, out, and duco, I lead. It means a leading out. To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.

Being in love is something like poetry. Certainly, you can analyze and expound its various senses and intentions, but there is always something left over, mysteriously hovering between music and meaning.

Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of importance.

Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.