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

Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think ofhimself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches him this.

Beauty is a fruit which we look at without trying to seize it.

A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.

Modern war appears as a struggle led by all the State apparatuses and their general staffs against all men old enough to bear arms.

Time does us violence; it is the only violence.

If there were no affliction in this world we might think we were in paradise.