In the physical world, one cannot increase the size or quantity of anything without changing its quality. Similar figures exist only in pure geometry.

My hand feels touched as well as it touches; reality says this, and nothing more.

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

In most cases, when the lion, weary of obeying its master, has torn and devoured him, its nerves are pacified and it looks round for another master before whom to grovel.

A difficulty is a light. An insurmountable difficulty is a sun.

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

To hit someone means to adopt his point of view.