“Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.”
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Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.
A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.
To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.
What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.
