Truths may clash without contradicting each other.

One must require from each one the duty which each one can perform. Accepted authority rests first of all on reason.

The important thing is to strive toward a goal which is not immediately visible. That goal is not the concern of the mind, but of the spirit.

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.

An administration, like a machine, does not create. It carries on.

I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him... The land of tears is so mysterious.

Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, which is to be what one is and no other.