“Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors.”

“So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbors. The citizen of the universe would be the man who wishes his country never to be either greater or smaller, richer or poorer.”

“Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.”

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

“One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.”

“One always begins with the simple, then comes the complex, and by superior enlightenment one often reverts in the end to the simple. Such is the course of human intelligence.”

“No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.”