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

It is the duty of the ship's captain to make port, cost what it may.

To grasp the meaning of the world of today we use a language created to express the world of yesterday. The life of the past seems to us nearer our true natures, but only for the reason that it is nearer our language.

Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness.

Peace dies when the framework is ripped apart. When there is no longer a place that is yours in the world. When you know no longer where your friend is to be found.

We must not subject him who creates to the desires of the multitude. It is, rather, his creation that must become the multitude's desire.

Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.