Truths may clash without contradicting each other.

Experience will guide us to the rules. You cannot make rules precede practical experience.

What sets us against one another is not our aims - they all come to the same thing - but our methods, which are the fruit of our varied reasoning.

Only the children know what they are looking for.

The injustice of defeat lies in the fact that its most innocent victims are made to look like heartless accomplices. It is impossible to see behind defeat, the sacrifices, the austere performance of duty, the self-discipline and the vigilance that are there - those things the god of battle does not take account of.

I was too young to know how to love her.

In order to cure a feeling of malaise, you have to throw light on it.