The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.
Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved.
Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted.
The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter and that of the stars; it is that from our very prison we should draw, from our own selves, images powerful enough to deny our nothingness.
What is man? A miserable little pile of secrets.
There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.
A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, nothing else.
The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness.
Between eigtheen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.
And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.
An art book is a museum without walls.
To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.
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