As we grow old...the beauty steals inwards.

Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since atleast half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

The warexisting between the senses and reason.

Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

We areall faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised asimpossible situations.

We arethe prisoners of ideas.

A fly beforehis own eye is bigger than an elephant in the next field.

The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independet.

History is the witness of the times, the light of truth.

It's notthe will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes the difference.