Virtue has many preachers, but few martyrs.
By annihilating desires, you annihilate the mind.
To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves: such a prohibition ought to fill them with disdain.
He who has no passion has no principal or motive to act.
Truth is a torch which gleams in the fog but does not dispel it.
Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy.