Ignorance is a treasure of infinite price that most men squander, when they should cherish its least fragments; some ruin it by educating themselves, others, unable to so much as conceive of making use of it, let it waste away. Quite on the contrary, we should search for it assiduously in what we think we know best. Leaf through a dictionary or try to make one, and you will find that every word covers and masks a well so bottomless that the questions you toss into it arouse no more than an echo.

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

A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others.

Whoever wants to accomplish great things must devote to a lot of profound thought to details.

Do you not realise that dance is the pure act of metamorphosis?

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

To penetrate one's being, one must go armed to the teeth.