Power without abuse loses its charm.
War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.
Love is being stupid together.
Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.
God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.
The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be.
Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.
The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.
In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.