Necessity is God's veil.

I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances.

When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.

Fire destroys that which feeds it.

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.

Patriotism is idolatry of the self.