Man cannot bear his own portrait. The image of his limits and his own determinacy exasperates him, drives him mad.

Politeness is organized indifference.

Let us enrich ourselves with our mutual differences.

All nations have present, or past, or future reasons for thinking themselves incomparable.

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.

My poems mean what people take them to mean.

Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.