Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.

To get rid of an enemy one must love him.

Que sais-je?

'One must forget many cliches in order to behold a single image. Insight is the beginning of perceptions to come rather than the extension of perceptions gone …

An aphorism can never be the whole truth; it is either a half-truth or a truth-and-a-half.