But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
The wise man is astonished by anything.
Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
Faith can move mountains; true: mountains of stupidity.
It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not deserve to live; before killing other good, decent fellows like himself, his gun would fall from his hands.