Everything is politics.

We do not fear being called meticulous, inclining as we do to the view that only the exhaustive can be truly interesting.

I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find in it the best remedy against the lusts of the flesh.

One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.

Speech is civilization itself.

Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph.

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.