Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments.

You have the army of mediocrities followed by the multitude of fools. As the mediocrities and the fools always form the immense majority, it is impossible for them to elect an intelligent government.

Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.

Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.

The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.

A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.

Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food

It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.

There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress.

Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.

Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.

Anyone can be a hero, even those who cannot!

Still, though no one is an island, most are peninsulas. Our lives wouldn't make sense without personal memories pinned like butterflies against the velvet backdrop of social history.

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

Goals never come easy. No one gives you goals.

Truth as Circe. - Error has transformed animals into men; is truth perhaps capable of changing man back into an animal?

I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.

Be humble and grateful for what you have and the universe will reward your gratitude.

The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe). [Lat., Summarum summa est aeternum.]

The most confident critics are generally those who know the least about the matter criticized.