Poor and free rather than rich and enslaved. Of course, men want to be both rich and free, and this is what leads them at times to be poor and enslaved.

On good days, if you trust life, life has to answer you.

Peace is the only battle worth waging.

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.

A character is never the author who created him. It is quite likely, however, that an author may be all his characters simultaneously.

To two men living the same number of years, the world always provides the same sum of experiences. It is up to us to be conscious of them.

Have you noticed that only death arouses our emotions? How we love thee friends who have just passed away, right? How we admire those master who no longer speak, their mouths full of dirt. We them we are not obligated.