- The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow.
- It’s an universal law– intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education.
- Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
- The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie.
- When you’re cold, don’t expect sympathy from someone who’s warm.
- Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.
- The sole substitute for an experience we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
- Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.
- Someone that you have deprived of everything is no longer in your power. He is once again entirely free.
- Our envy of others devours us most of all.
- A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
- A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.
- Beat a dog once and you only have to show him the whip.
- A genius doesn’t adjust his treatment of a theme to a tyrant’s taste
- Every man always has handy a dozen glib little reasons why he is right not to sacrifice himself.
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