One is not oneself every day-fortunately.

... anything difficult to say must be shouted from the rooftops.

To think about and prepare for war is boring, boring for everyone. It's being locked in barracks.

doubt seems the only purity for those who are too fervent to deny, and too lucid to affirm.

Hero worship has died with heroes, and if someone bows down today, it is to pick up something.

Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.

We are nearly all composed of such a complex mixture of human qualities that in each one of us reside both masculine and feminine principles: what man is without any female attribute and what woman never demonstrates any masculine characteristics?