For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

You could not be born at a better period than the present, when we have lost everything.

Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.

Our science is like a store filled with the most subtle intellectual devices for solving the most complex problems, and yet we are almost incapable of applying the elementary principles of rational thought.

Patriotism is idolatry of the self.

The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the laws and to an oath, and not from baseness of soul.