The desire that is satisfied is not a great desire, nor has the shoulder used all its might that an unbreakable gate has never strained.
The blessed spirits must be sought within the self which is common to all.
So long as all is ordered for attack, and that alone, leaders will instinctively increase the number of enemies that they may give their followers something to do.
Our own acts are isolated and one act does not buy absolution for another.
Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not persuade, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.
One should not lose one’s temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.
Not a man alive has so much luck that he can play with it.
No art can conquer the people alone – the people are conquered by an ideal of life upheld by authority.
Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.
Love is created and preserved by intellectual analysis, for we love only that which is unique, and it belongs to contemplation, not to action, for we would not change that which we love.
Love is based on inequality as friendship is on equality.
Literature is always personal, always one man’s vision of the world, one man’s experience, and it can only be popular when men are ready to welcome the visions of others.
