“Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.”

Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose

If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.

The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.

If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.

I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.

The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.

Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.

True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.

We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.

Rich people are poor people with money.

Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.

Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

Perhaps, I myself am the enemy who needs to be loved.

May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.

Emotion can be the enemy, if you give into your emotion, you lose yourself. You must be at one with your emotion, because the body always follows the mind.

Conform to the enemy’s tactics until a favorable opportunity offers; then come forth and engage in a battle that shall prove decisive.

A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.

The opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.

Do not swallow bait offered by the enemy. Do not interfere with an army that is returning home.