Those who are free from common prejudices acquire others.

If we could read the past histories of all our enemies we would disregard all hostility for them.

Whatever misanthropists may say, ingrates and the perverse are exceptions in the human species.

You don't govern men who don't have religion, you shoot them.

A true man hates no one.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

War is a lottery in which nations ought to risk nothing but small amounts.