Man is born free, and everywhere is is in chains

The art of writing is the art of restraint.

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

We willbe known by the tracks we leave behind.

You could forgive an enemy. It is harder to forgive yourself.

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.

Don't throwout the baby with the bath water.

The hardeststep is over the threshold.

The louder the talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.

Civilization, in a sly way, is a suspicion that the other fellow may be right.

All our rightousnesses are like filthy rags

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.