Curiosity is gluttony. To see is to devour.

War can only be qualified by its object, and there is neither foreign war nor civil war, there is only just or unjust war.

A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished that such a thing could have been.

The world is the expanding Greece and Greece is the shrinking world.

No doubt it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. That work is already advanced and is making progress every day. But man must be civilized also in relation to nature.

In the opera we call love, the libretto is almost nothing.

We need those who pray constantly to compensate for those who do not pray at all.