“It's necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.”

“There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.....the sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.”

“Ideas do not have to be correct in order to be good; its only necessary that, if they do fail, they do so in an interesting way. ”

“One must ask for death to know how good it is to live”

“To know means to know all. Not to know all means not to know. In order to know all, it is only necessary to know a little. But, in order to know this little, it is first necessary to know pretty much.”

“But in this country it is necessary, now and then, to put one admiral to death in order to inspire the others to fight.”