Power without abuse loses its charm.

Great things are accomplished by those who do not feel the impotence of man. This is a precious gift.

To hit someone means to adopt his point of view.

What one wrote playfully, another reads with tension and passion; what one wrote with tension and passion, another reads playfully.

God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.

Conscience reigns but it does not govern.

to live means to lack something at every moment