Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.

Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

When you name yourself, you always name another.

War is like love, it always finds a way.

Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

Only bad generals need heroes.