A Don Juan is not a man who loves women, but a man that women love. |
A revolution does not last more than fifteen years, the period which coincides with the flourishing of a generation. |
A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation |
Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be. |
An ''unemployed'' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself. |
An idea is a putting truth in check-mate. |
Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist. |
Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly. |
Biography is: a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified. |
By speaking, by thinking, we undertake to clarify things, and that forces us to exacerbate them, dislocate them, schematize them. Every concept is in itself an exaggeration. |
Civilization is nothing else than the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort |
Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort. |
Contrary to the unsophisticated suggestions of melodrama, to rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as of the firm seat |
Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt. |
Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do. |