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The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.
To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.
I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.
In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.
Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.
Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt.
Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.
The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.
Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said.
I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.
In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.
There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.
There are moments when very little truth would be enough to shape opinion. One might be hated at extremely low cost.