We adore, we invoke, we seek to appease, only that which we fear.
It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.
I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.
History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.
When we cannot use the compass of mathematics or the torch of experience...it is certain we cannot take a single step forward.
The more a man knows, the less he talks.